For those in the USA who are interested in traditional sealskin Evening Dress sporrans, here's one that's on US soil already.
It's by W. E. Scott, Edinburgh. The design was called EW3 in their catalogue.
It's an exceptionally handsome sporran, in that they used two different colours of seal, dark grey for the front and a near-white for the gusset and tassels. The Cantle appears to be the older version made in 5 pieces, the main piece, the knob, and the three bosses. Some of the later ones cast the bosses as part of the Cantle, only the knob being separate.
The fur has some of those little moth-holes you see in some old seal sporrans. I don't know what else to call them, though I don't know what causes them, perhaps not moths.
The cantle and especially the bells need a good cleaning and polishing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Sil...ndition=4%7C10
Last edited by OC Richard; 1st July 20 at 06:00 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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