One of my very first sporrans was a lovely vintage sealskin EW7/T which I bought at one of the first Highland Games I attended, around 1976.
A guy had a booth... well it would have been a booth, but his tent and his tables hadn't been delivered yet, so he just had stuff lying on the dirt.
One of the things lying on the dirt was a fantastic vintage Prince Charlie, another was that sealskin sporran, and I bought both of them. The Prince Charlie actually had dirty footprints on it.
Here they are, worn at one of my earliest piping gigs (after sending the PC to the drycleaners), the wedding of a friend who BTW is a member here! (photo edited, Dave!)
Anyhow let's compare the "canon" of sporrans above to some earlier catalogues, first Anderson 1936
Rowans 1938
Henderson, 1939
another Anderson, c1955
"Tartan Gift Shop" c1960
Last edited by OC Richard; 22nd December 12 at 04:04 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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