trad 'canon' of sporran styles

[imrichmond]

HOW much were they charging for those sporrans back then?!?! Am I reading this right where the Full Mask sporrans (#'s 52 and 53) were roughly $6 (using the 1.65 Exchange rate of today) and the Hunting sporran (# 56) was $8?

I wasn't around in 1938, but I think you'll find that the UK pound was worth about US$5.00 or slightly more in the 1930s. Wages in the UK were very low, so the cost of the "Rob Roy" sporran, £2 10 (two pounds, ten shillings or 2.5 pounds), was equivalent to at least a week's wages for an average Scottish worker. My first kilt, a medium weight purchased in 1959 from Hugh MacPherson of Edinburgh, cost me CAN$40. That sounds incredibly cheap compared to today's prices, but it represented 4 weeks wages from my part-time job as a theatre usher. By the way, I'm wearing that kilt in my avatar.