Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Century USN KA-BAR knives from 1942-1943

USN KA-BAR knives from 1942-1943 are exceptionally hard to find

The helmet bears a wonderfully detailed hand painted 377th Medical Company Air Ambulance insignia to the reverse that reads:

Condition is quite good

This is an very nice example of the rare WWII Italian Fascist Fighting Knife

For wartime recruits

Original Set of Two Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Arm Daggers with Tooled Leather Scabbards - c. 1885 Century USN KA-BAR knives from 1942-1943Original items: One Set of Two Only. 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