Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Daggers with Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Availability_Domestic with a 4 7/8" clip

with a 4 7/8" clip point blade

It's somewhat rare to see the proofs this visible

while the right side has a National Colors shield

He then served again during WWII

Reaction to the drab model was generally positive over the years

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Daggers with Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Availability_Domestic with a 4 7/8" clipOriginal 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