Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Dagger with Wire Wrapped Wood Grip and Leather Scabbard Century Martini Henry Pattern B was

Martini Henry Pattern B was a New Rifle (not a conversion of Enfield Martini)

Approximate size: length 16” x width 7”

Officer ranks caps were distinguished from EM/NCO’s with silver piping for the ranks of Lieutenant to Oberst and gilt piping for the ranks of Generalmajor to Generalfeldmarschall while EM/NCO’s ranks caps were not piped

• Major rank gold oak leafs

Most swords do not have matching numbers because somewhere along the life of the sword the scabbard was changed

Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Dagger with Wire Wrapped Wood Grip and Leather Scabbard Century Martini Henry Pattern B wasOriginal 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.