Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Fighting Daggers with Leather Scabbards - Circa 1885 Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets The original factory grind marks

The original factory grind marks can be seen in the hollow ground blade

Everything appears to be in very good to excellent condition

this helmet is still in fine condition and ready to display

” on the cover flap

which quickly went through several different revisions

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Fighting Daggers with Leather Scabbards - Circa 1885 Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets The original factory grind marksOriginal items. One Set of Two Available. The loss of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885 was a great blow to British prestige and yet it took thirteen years for Great Britain to extract revenge at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. The religious leader, the Mahdi, "the chosen or expected one" had died shortly after the Gordon episode and the Caliphate was now led by the infamous and exceptional brutal Khalifa, "the successor". These tribal natives of the