Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 U.S. Flags This is a very good

This is a very good condition early example of the rifle that replaced the legendary Springfield Trapdoor

Stiff competition from other companies a well as the post-war glut of surplus arms led to little interest in the rifles at all

it was retained

Our mission here was to hold the ground we already occupied

Excellent eye catching item for any WW2 Italian collection

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Pommel and Tooled Leather Scabbard - c.1880 U.S. Flags This is a very goodOriginal 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