Quality Sporrans for less money

[OC Richard]

Jock's estimate is probably correct.

It's difficult with those old horsehair sporrans, especially the military ones, because the same patterns were made from the 1840s up to around WWII.

However with civilian ones there are some trends we can consider. For one, in Victorian times it was more common to have the cantles fabricated out of sheet metal, then engraved.

Seems around the turn of the century casting the cantles began becoming more popular.

Whether sheet metal or cast solid metal, by far the most popular metal was "German silver" AKA "nickel silver" or cupro-nickel. (There was no actual silver content, but the metal has an uncanny resemblance to Sterling silver and is mistaken for it all the time.)

The sporrans were made with the pocket in back, and the two belt loops, from at least the 1840s up to today.

Oftentimes there were two rings soldered on the back of the cantle to clip a sporran chain onto. They didn't seem to have the adapters in the old days, if using a chain it would be clipped onto the metal rings, if using a plain leather belt it would be passed through the leather belt loops.

All things considered I would guess your sporran is from the 1920s or 1930s.