Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets Each is a high quality

Each is a high quality black soft-shell leather design complete with double magazines pouch containing two (2) original 9mm Lahti magazines

It is dirty from long storage

The very early date of 1867 would indicate a possible French contract perhaps because of the increasing problems the French and the Prussians were experiencing which of course led to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71

These are exceptionally hard to find and are unrestricted by Federal Law

the defeat was due to Napoleon III's foolhardiness in allowing himself to get captured at the Battle of Sedan and the show was then over

Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Dagger with Skull Crusher Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets Each is a high qualityOriginal Item: One of a kind. In the 1880s the SUDAN the vast land just south of Egypt was ruled by the Khedive from Cairo. Sudan was basically occupied by native Africans in the south and Arab traders in the north. The coming of the Muslim religious leader known as the "Mahdi" unified the population into an uprising against Egypt. Britain assisted and allowed General Charles Gordon to become the Governor of Sudan on behalf of the Egyptian Khedive.