Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Iron Headed War Club with Leather Wrapping Flintlocks • The Service Song Book

• The Service Song Book

built in 1650 on the site of the medieval Peill Castle

Original Item:   Harrington and Richardson manufactured 1-inch signal pistols for the British Government

This is a fine original

last Emperor of India) and

Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Iron Headed War Club with Leather Wrapping Flintlocks • The Service Song BookOriginal 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.