Quality Sporrans for less money

[figheadair]

Around WWI when our modern "Day" sporrans became the most common "Day" style, many were made from pigskin.

It's cool to see old catalogues that list the specific animal-skin used.

Here's a 1930s catalogue that offers sporrans in buckskin, pigskin, and leather. ("Leather" and "hide" specifically refer to cowhide.)



For whatever reason in the post-WWII period most makers stopped using pigskin, but continued offering sporrans with the pigskin look, made of cowhide given a pigskin texture and colour.

My Anderson's No.17 - Pigskin, with opening top and no studs.
Sporran - Anderson's c1930-Front-sm.jpg

The £3. 8s. 6d price equates to about £250 today. I'm not sure what a modern version in leather, not pigskin, costs from MM?

[OC Richard]

W E Scott hunting sporran said to be pigskin, though I wonder if it's actually pigskin or cowhide made to look like pigskin

$300US so not a big price difference from the 1930s

https://www.artisansofscotland.com/s...-stud-sporran/

[Tomo]

The £3. 8s. 6d price equates to about £250 today. I'm not sure what a modern version in leather, not pigskin, costs from MM?

MM do a few different styles - All around the £200 mark.