My Sudan wall
 

Just completed another wall display .

Most impressive!
 

Most impressive!

Thanks very much .... its an accumulation of 40 years though !

40 years spent getting the collection together is time well spent.

There are so few hobbies where you can collect such diversity of items for sometimes practically v little money that gives so much opertunity to study and learn, both about the objects but also the origins.
I love the antipope antler knife, v much unique.

Great display and well balanced esteticly, maybe a webley revolver and a picture of Gordon for balance on the opposing side of the stairs😀

Thanks for sharing

Ken

Thank you Ken ( hope your description of my knife was a typo .... or is it something Ian Paisley would have owned ?) . You are very perceptive re what is on the opposite wall though ..... see attached pic !

Yes it was a typo. I will leave it un corrected though to share with the rest of the forum😀
A good anticipation on what is in the rest of your house by me though!

Fantastic story re the battle of Khartoum, and great to see so much weaponry from the area.

Regards
Ken

Very nice! :) :eek: :cool:

Very nice to see! I just LOVE that shield!
Your method in having the spears is follow the angle of the stairs has worked well...I may even give further consideration to that which is hung in my stair well!

Gavin

Yes Ken .... when I began collecting ethnic items , most people I knew focused on the Zulu Wars so in order to ring the changes I started collecting Sudanese related items .... for one thing they were much cheaper and I had enjoyed 'Storm Over The Nile ' as a kid !

Thank you .

Thank you Gavin . I remember buying that shield for next to nothing at the Victorian Military Society Fair in London in the 1980s ... it is the only one I have seen for sale since . The angling of my spears on this wall is simply because the wall isnt wide enough to accommodate the longest one if placed straight .... but I think it looks better too ... giving it some 'movement' as the artistic might say.

Great display, thanks for sharing :)

Cheers Colin, pleasure.

the elephant in the room - i'll take one for the team...

of course the sudanese arms an even the english ones could all be antipope, as the mahdists were islamic, as were the gyptians, and even the english were anti-catholic. the king/queen of the UK cannot by law be catholic, and only in 2011 was a concession made that they could marry one. an islamic woman still cannot marry a non muslim, so all kinda antipapal. even if not made of antilope bits. :)

Very true !

Wonderful display and collection.

For those who may be interested, the first edition of Churchill's book on the subject, The River War, was severely edited to remove comments Churchill thought would be politically damaging, and was never reprinted in totality. Copies of the first edition are rather pricey, usually running to four figures.

However, it is available online for those who can tolerate the idea of reading a few thousand pages on thier computer screens. Here's a link:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4943/4943-h/4943-h.htm

Very nice. That crocodile skin dagger is something I never seen before. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting !