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    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    and this rather plain proto-Hunting sporran hallmarked Robertson 1893 (probably Robert & George Brunton Robertson, Cupar, 1857-1917)

    That is a lovely sporran.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    I suspected that due to the rarity, cost, and similarities between them that they might be the work of a single firm, or at most a small number of firms.

    Do you know how many of these Ferguson & MacBean might have made? Did they made round-top ones as well as square-top?
    I don't, I've seem some slightly later ones of theirs which are hair with silver cantle but these are the only three proto-Hunting style ones of their that I know of.

    The other well known maker of the time was Henry Tatton, Edinburgh. This one is quite well known but I don't know who ones it now. I know another similar to this.

    Henry Tatton Sporran.jpg

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