Quality Sporrans for less money

[OC Richard]

Here's a beautiful seal Evening sporran, super low opening bid, no bids at this time.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sporran-Sma...ndition=4%7C10

I'll have to double check but this cantle style might be one of those that was around in the 1930s, went out of production (or into lesser production) for a time, then went into mass production in the 1980s.

The cantle is silver plate.



The listing says it's a "small" sporran but happily they give the measurements which show that it's an ordinary fullsize adult sporran.

I can see the ANDERSON half of the stamp, most likely KINLOCH ANDERSON.

Describing the sporran as "brown and red" might seem odd to Americans (like me) but I've seen and discussed enough colour samples and tweed swatches to come to understand that the word "brown" has different connotations in the UK and in the USA.

Here in the USA "brown" connotes a colour that would be called "chocolate" or "walnut" in Britain.

I have seen, over and over, tweeds in a colour that Americans would regard midway between grey and mid-brown, which we would normally call "gray" or if we were being more fashion-precise would call "taupe" but which in Britain are called "brown".

Here is a suit described as "brown tweed"