Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Category_Water Jacket Assembly This knife was produced by

This knife was produced by Deutsche Maschinefabrik A-G (DEMAG) of Duisburg as a private purchase item

The scabbard matches the hilt exactly

The patch is similar to the ETOUSA patch with the addition of the blue 5 pointed star in the white six lobed field

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this is a genuine WW2 example offered in excellent complete condition

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Category_Water Jacket Assembly This knife was produced byOriginal 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