Unusual Gordon Highlanders' sporran

[creagdhubh]

Thanks for posting those great pics. My friends who reenact 42nd Highlander 1815 did research on the sporrans and that looks correct. They were made from goat hair, some regiments used white, some gray. I have a gray goat hair coat from the 70's that I kept to make military sporrans with. It is same color as the 92nd one. This is a photo of the 42nd reproduction sporran that they made last year.


figheadair might recognize the tartan cloth in the photo's kilt as he made it. At this time sporrans were for dress uniforms and not known to be worn in battle. Many of the paintings of Waterloo were painted 1830's to 1850's and the artists used the current uniforms of their times like the horsehair sporrans in the Quartre Bras painting .

Very well done!