Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Reptile Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 Hotchkiss MG Offered in overall excellent condition

Offered in overall excellent condition with a near perfect blade (parkerized shortly after WW1)

battle weary

The bottom is marked with a Luftwaffe eagle with FL UV which represents Flieger Unterkunft Verwaltung or Flight Barracks Administration along with W

) was a bayonet designed for the Imperial Japanese Army to be used with the Arisaka Type 30 Rifle and was later used on the Type 38 and Type 99 rifles

and far fewer Carbines than the long rifles were made

Original Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Reptile Leather Scabbard and Arm Loop - Circa 1885 Hotchkiss MG Offered in overall excellent conditionOriginal 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