Having no stamp unfortunately leaves us in the dark as to whether or not it's Scottish-made.
W E Scott & Son used to use that gold oval Made In Scotland Real Leather stamp, but at some point (I wish I knew when) they stopped stamping their sporrans, just putting on a sticker.
As we've seen each maker tends to have a distinct shape to the leather tab sewn on the back. Also the shape of the strap with the press-button/snap varies.
I wish I had enough photos of enough sporrans to know for certain which shapes went with which makers.
Confusing the matter is how makers such as W E Scott would sell sporrans to various retailers, these stamped with the retailer's name in several instances.
In any case that brown sporran in question has a certain shape of tab and stitiching that I've seen on sporrans sold in more recent times by Kinloch Anderson.
Whether these are made in-house by them, or by W E Scott or somebody else, I don't know. However W E Scott's tabs are generally straight across the top and bottom.
Here's a Kinloch Anderson-stamped sporran with the same tab shape and stitching pattern as the plain brown leather sporran that has sold on Ebay. Note that top and bottom there's a straight row of stitching and a curved row.
Here's that plain brown sporran #19 in the 1936 Anderson's catalogue
and it was often sold with a fur front.
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