"Old Sporran" on eBay, yikes, 1700s?

**Kilted Karl** · 31st January 12, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by haukehaien

*My feather bonnet also has red-and-white :dicing on it to show my allegiance to Ralston/Purina.

**hylander** · 1st February 12, 11:51 AM

Double Yikes, it's up to $510.00 wit 4 days to go.

**pugcasso** · 1st February 12, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by hylander

So you like to braid . . .

"believed to date back to the 1700's" , thoughts?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Authentic-Sc...item46006a06b2

I quite like it .... pretty strongly doubt it's that old as it looks to be in pretty good shape. I don't know it's a sporran or not but I'd like something like this as a sporran more than many sporrans

**English Bloke** · 1st February 12, 01:46 PM

"This sporran was acquired by a U.S. soldier on leave in Scotland during WWII"...

I think he means he nicked it.

I suspect that thing is considerably less Scottish than me.

(Oooops... did I say that out loud?)

**Jack Daw** · 2nd February 12, 09:51 AM

I swear I'm not one of the bidders!!

**artificer** · 5th February 12, 07:06 PM

Final Price- $710US.

Clearly I need to source some WW2 era North African/West Asian bags to start selling as sporrans

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**Ryan Ross** · 6th February 12, 08:03 AM

...there's another one born every minute.

**MacRob46** · 7th February 12, 10:59 AM

I doubt that thing is a true antique sporran. The leather looks too fresh to be very old and it is of a style that just does not look Scottish or even like an antique sporran. Most, but not all, surviving antique sporrans have a metal clasp or other type of closure mechanism. There are some extant that do not have any metal in them but none that have that awful ugly braided leather hanging all over them. If it is a sporran - and I gather that my fellow forumites are doubtful on that score - it could be Victorian since some truly hideous stuff came out of the Victorian fascination with all things Scottish.