Quality Sporrans for less money

[OC Richard]

Back over so many years when so many different sporran makers were using the same hardware, you would see how certain cantles came silver-plated, others came chrome-plated.

Occasionally you might see a cantle normally seen in silverplate in chrome, but it would be an exception.

The cantles usually seen in silverplate were the celtic knotwork & bosses cantle used on EW2, the "G" cantle, and the EW5 cantle with the ancient "bullseye" or "goddess eye" motif.

Usually the silverplate cantles had a "Made In Scotland" stamp on the side while the chrome-plated cantles did not.

Here are a couple photos from the tri-fold sheet used by a number of sporranmakers and retailers throughout the latter 20th century:






Here's a page from the Anderson 1936 catalogue showing the fairly recently-established Evening Dress sporrans in sealskin with (usually) a curved silver cantle. Little changed between the 1920s and throughout the rest of the 20th century.