Original 1890 Mahdi Wars African Dervish Rhinoceros Hide Shield Rear Sight Assembly Walter J Harmacinski

Walter J Harmacinski

deployed to Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands

The result was the introduction of the Lovell pattern Percussion Musket of 1842 that was in effect a virtual clone of the then Standard East India Pattern Model E/F Infantry Musket

An Stutzer variant with a Stecher action

for a very reasonable price

Original 1890 Mahdi Wars African Dervish Rhinoceros Hide Shield Rear Sight Assembly Walter J HarmacinskiOriginal 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