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    Quote Originally Posted by williame View Post
    a nice new dress sporran (no tags) from L&M for less than USD $57 including shipping. Listed at CAD 310 (about USD 235) on the L&M website.
    I'm a big fan of L&M Highland Outfitters (Nova Scotia). They carry on the classic styles and old-school craftsmanship, and have done some nice innovations as well. Congrats on your lovely sporran!

    Here's a nice Evening Wear sporran, one of the classic styles I call the "canon". It appears to have a silverplated cantle. I do believe the fur is bovine, which the Scottish sporranmakers would use in place of sealskin for their sporrans intended for the US market. It has the typical classic gold oval stamp "Made In Scotland".

    In any case a nice quality Scottish-made sporran for around $50.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-SCO...temCondition=4
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    I'm a big fan of L&M Highland Outfitters (Nova Scotia). They carry on the classic styles and old-school craftsmanship, and have done some nice innovations as well. Congrats on your lovely sporran!
    Agreed. L&M produce fine sporrans.

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    Here's a style one doesn't often see, blending elements from a Hunting sporran and an ordinary leather Day sporran with a fur front:

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sporran/392...temCondition=4

    So you have the ordinary plaited Day sporran leather tassels rather than the flat leather tabs usually seen on Hunting sporrans.

    It's less than $50 including post.

    Beware that the fur is seal, and subject to seizure if posted to the USA.

    Also from Oban, a Made In Scotland stamped plain brown leather vintage Day sporran for less than $30 including post.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sporran-Lea...temCondition=4

    In the USA, a Made In Scotland animal mask sporran for well under $100

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-SPO...temCondition=4

    Here's a superb quality hair sporran from WE Scott Edinburgh for a fraction of what a new sporran like this would cost

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pipers-Hors...temCondition=4
    Last edited by OC Richard; 16th August 19 at 03:08 AM.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    So here is the sporran I purchased from the e . bay listing from OCRichard's original post two years ago. Put on your sunglasses, it was evening but I got those lily white legs. Only thing that might save them is I have dark hair!

    I ended up at $90USD including shipping. The original listing described it as horsehair but according to L&M (https://www.landmhighland.ca/product...dress-sporran/) it is calf with badger fur tassels. I was aware of the difference at the time of bidding. Either way it is very soft The chain is much more substantial than my other sporrans (one likely pakistani and the other made in Scotland) as is the leather portion of the strap. The seller was rhea 2013 and I was very pleased with the transaction.

    So a very belated thank you to OCRichard!

    Last edited by bodhran4me; 29th August 19 at 10:59 PM. Reason: add link for sporran

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    Lovely outfit there! Looks like the 'peat' tweed jacket that House Of Edgar makes, and the Cheviot 'bison' hose, which look great together. (I've not seen those worn together before.) Thanks for sharing about that sporran.

    At the moment on Ebay there are loads of Scottish-made sporrans. One seller in the UK named Starkey has several sealskin Evening sporrans for around $100 but of course they're a no-no for US buyers.

    This one has little stones on the cantle, presumably imitation Amethysts, pretty cool. It's by WE Scott Edinburgh.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dress-Sporr...temCondition=4

    Here in the USA, a lot of five Scottish-made sporrans with an opening bid of $100, no bids, and a BIN of $150.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Used-sporra...temCondition=4

    There's a seller dereburc with some interesting Hunting sporrans, this one in particular has a certain vintage feel to it

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hunting-Spo...temCondition=4
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    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    Lovely outfit there! Looks like the 'peat' tweed jacket that House Of Edgar makes, and the Cheviot 'bison' hose, which look great together. (I've not seen those worn together before.) Thanks for sharing about that sporran.

    Thank you and good eye on both the jacket and hose ! And thanks again for the tip on the sporran. It really is a quality piece and was a great price. The worst part is not having anywhere fancy to wear it.

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    This is an odd one.

    It's a Made In Scotland brown leather Day sporran for $20 including shipping.

    It's a standard pattern however there's a strange leather shape put on the flap, and holes where a badge used to be. I suppose the leather shape functioned as a backing for the badge? I don't recognize the shape of the badge. RAF??

    I wonder if that leather shape can be removed.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mid-C20th-T...temCondition=4

    Here's a Made In Scotland standard old pattern brown leather Day sporran with the old-fashioned fastening stud (later they used press buttons) for around $50 including shipping.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-CEL...temCondition=4
    Last edited by OC Richard; 5th October 19 at 03:08 AM.
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    There's somebody in Georgia selling several seal Evening sporrans opening bid $40 buy it now $60, a fairly rare opportunity to acquire these already within US borders

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Greenland-S...temCondition=4
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    I love vintage Nicoll Brothers Bankfoot sporrans, here's one going very inexpensively

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nicoll-Bros...temCondition=4

    For those of us interested in true vintage sporrans, here's one in great shape, not marked but from the style I would guess somewhere between c1930 and c1950

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-Bro...temCondition=4
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    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    This is an odd one.

    It's a Made In Scotland brown leather Day sporran for $20 including shipping.

    It's a standard pattern however there's a strange leather shape put on the flap, and holes where a badge used to be. I suppose the leather shape functioned as a backing for the badge? I don't recognize the shape of the badge. RAF??

    I wonder if that leather shape can be removed.

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mid-C20th-T...temCondition=4
    OCR Grateful for this note: being RAF now, this is perfect! Watching...(hope I'm not bidding against a fellow Ramble!)
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