Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard Circa 1885 French Edged Weapons Russ Wirtz

Russ Wirtz

Our Musket bears EIC proof Marks on the barrel and the rampant Lion EIC Logo on the lock plate

This is the cypher of the City of Issue

The lower mount is also set with two screws

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Leather Scabbard Circa 1885 French Edged Weapons Russ WirtzOriginal item. Only One Available. 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 Sudan