Original Victorian Era Sudanese Mahdi Broadsword Kaskara with Crocodile Skin Scabbard Cleaned & Complete Antique Guns Double edged blade with blood

Double edged blade with blood gutter complete with all steel Scottish regulation scabbard with two hanging rings and "ball" on bottom Fretted heart design in basket with maroon tassel at pommel

what we refer to as the AKM Type I

The pin fire cartridge was ignited by the compression of a "pin" sticking out from one side which struck and internal primer to ignite the charge

See a photo of it in Hans Seeger's book "Military Binoculars and Telescopes for Land

the Al-Yarmouk Hospital in south Baghdad saw a steady rate of about 100 new patients an hour

Original Victorian Era Sudanese Mahdi Broadsword Kaskara with Crocodile Skin Scabbard Cleaned & Complete Antique Guns Double edged blade with bloodOriginal Item: One of a kind. Original Item: One of a kind. In the 1870 1880 the SUDAN the vast land just south of Egypt was ruled by the Khedive from Cairo. Sudan was basically occupied by native Africans in the south and Arab traders in the north. The coming of the Muslim religious leader known as the "Mahdi" unified the population into an uprising against Egypt. Britain assisted and allowed General Charles Gordon to become the Governor of Sudan on