Original Sudanese Mahdi Wars Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard circa 1880 Military Flare Guns This is an exceedingly rare

This is an exceedingly rare specialist British weapon used in the days of sail

- Original theater printed 158th RCT newspaper publication

and the stock has definitely been sanded down at least once

Introduced during WW 1 in 1918 for use with the Vickers and Lewis machine guns

After a week of relative inactivity

Original Sudanese Mahdi Wars Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard circa 1880 Military Flare Guns This is an exceedingly rareOriginal Item: One of a kind. In the 1880s 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 behalf of the Egyptian Khedive.