Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Daggers with Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 British Militaria suggesting it was put into

suggesting it was put into service in the closing days of WWII

It is loaded with Italian made hand painted patches

07/12 had a cyclic rate of about 400 rounds/m

HJ members were being deployed in combat as anti-aircraft gunners attached as auxiliaries to the Luftwaffe

Browning arranged a test at the Springfield Armory in May 1917

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Daggers with Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 British Militaria suggesting it was put intoOriginal items: One Set of Two Only. 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