Very cool, I've not seen one like it:

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...wirlcantle.jpg

That's a nice sporran! :)

I love hair sporrans.
Have you heard of these :

http://www.skyehighlandoutfitters.co..._Sporrans.html


Best,

Robert

It looks like your average hair sporran. I don't think you've never seen one before, as you're wearing one in your avatar. What makes this one unique? Do you have the ebay link?

I've seen hundreds of horsehair sporrans, but I've never seen a cantle with that design.

There was so much variey in Highland dress back c1900 up through the 1920's, so many interesting buckle designs and sporran cantle designs one doesn't see anymore.

Just to calibrate our eye so to speak, here's the most commonly see horsehair sporran, with its crome-plated cast cantle with thistle designs. Thousands of these have been made over the years and you'll see examples made in the 1940's and they're still being made today, both in Scotland and in Pakistan.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...ealsporran.jpg

Nowdays you'll sometimes see Scottish sporran makers putting Evening sporran cantles on horsehair sporrans:

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...er/bauhaus.jpg

Interestingly, in the Army and in general in the old days, horsehair sporrans rarely had one knob: they had either three, or none. Here's an antique cantle somewhat similar to the modern cantle shown above but a slightly different pattern and with three knobs:

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...r/calcutta.jpg

So when a sporran with Celtic designs, one I've never seen, crops up it grabs my attention, like this one, which I bought and I'm wearing in my avatar:

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...cpiper/205.jpg

Even more rare and interesting are Victorian cantles which are cut out of sheet silver and engraved, rather than cast:

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...cantlespor.jpg

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...argyllspor.jpg

Very nice cantle.

Nice leather work on the small pouch...


Best,

Robert

What a great sporran there Chiel!

At first glance it resembles a modern pattern that's often seen... but a closer look reveals that it's much much nicer that anything around now. Very classy.