OC Richard regarding your question about 'Culloden Style' Cantle maybe a functional cantle might be a better term, I simply used 'Culloden Style' as it's the most common type of working Cantle about and a lot of Cantles about are mock examples. As far as I consider the term 'Culloden cantle' referred to the pattern used by the Black Watch which is so popular now, and was the style of my Father's Sporran at the time I inherited my first kilt, I was given the Canadian one with the leather flap, but always aspired to own one with a working cantle.

It is quite difficult to work out the history of working Cantles vs mock cantles as I used to have the impression it was a case of working ones being older than fakes and then fakes coming in more recently but obviously looking at the sporrans I have 'fake cantles' have a longer history than I first thought.

I did consider perhaps it was a case of Fakes being the cheaper option than the genuine working type. Certainly now it seems like getting a working cantle on a modern sporran is nigh in impossible except for Antique rebagged stock (goes at a premium), Inherited or 2nd hand items (rare and expensive unless you are lucky as in my case), or reproduction or commissioned one offs (again expensive).

In this case the pins and hinges are concealed not showing.