I posted this in another thread about sporan-making but then I thought maybe no-one would see it. I posted pictures from the museum a while back but this wasn't there at the time - I since found out it was out on loan.
It is about Rob Roy's sporan kept in the National Museum here in Edinburgh. It wasn't actually his but Sir Walter Scott was impressed with it and wrote it into his novel about Rob Roy - “I advise no man to attempt opening the sporran till he has my secret, said Rob Roy… This, said he, touching the pistol – This is the keeper of my privy purse.” – from Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott, 1818.



This is just the cantle, of course and I wonder what the rest of it looked like? I think you would need to be very careful where it was pointing though!