The Woollen Mill 179 High Street

[Jock Scot]

Hear, hear! I've made my opinions known already, that the UK should restrict/prohibit imports of specified "cultural products".

At the very least UK makers ought to be proactive and stamp their things. So many UK-made kilts, jackets, sporrans, etc have no markings stating such.

In the USA it's different: complex laws state that all clothing bear a label stating both the fibre content and the country of origin. All leather items must bear a label stating the sort of leather and country of origin.

In any case I worked fulltime in a Highland Outfitter here in the USA through the 1980s. We carried W E Scott sporrans and as I recall they had the gold oval Made In Scotland Real Leather stamp.



Thanks! The urge is strong to polish it. But yes it looks great as is.

In my years of receiving hundreds of W E Scott sporrans and putting them up for display and selling them I can't recall seeing an Evening sporran with brass cantle. Did you have any pass through your shop?

Steady on OCR! With the greatest of respect, what the UK does or, does not do, with its trade stamps is our affair and not yours OCR, or America’s. America has good ideas for sure , but please leave the UK to run their own affaires.

Suggestions are very welcome, but words like "ought" and "should" in the context that you have used them in your post above are a tad near the mark.