Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Dagger with Crocodile Skin Wrapped Scabbard Military Flare Guns All parts with a serial

All parts with a serial number have the same two-digit number

he marched with the 82nd Airborne in the victory parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City

also known as the Hawkins grenades

Each Maxim comes on it's original partly brass (under the paint) very heavy wheeled Soklov mount which itself was replaced in WW1 by a lighter all steel version

Though it shares the MG 15 designation with the earlier gun built by Bergmann

Original 1880 Sudanese Mahdi Dervish Dagger with Crocodile Skin Wrapped Scabbard Military Flare Guns All parts with a serialOriginal 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.