Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Century For wartime recruits

For wartime recruits

The regiment continued to drive forward toward the heartland of Germany

Condition is quite good

This is an very nice example of the rare WWII Italian Fascist Fighting Knife

The helmet bears a wonderfully detailed hand painted 377th Medical Company Air Ambulance insignia to the reverse that reads:

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Century For wartime recruitsOriginal 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