
Originally Posted by
Wingnut037
Sure would be nice to find one of those in budget!
Yes indeed!
Over the years I've got many bargains on Ebay.
But that "dragon" cantle wasn't one of them!
Unfortunately I got into a little bidding war with someone, and I think I ended up paying over $300 for it.
Which I've never regretted. Though it's cast, and thus it must have been made in quantity, in 50 years of kiltwatching I've never seen another.
It came with a boring long white horsehair body, which after swapping out cantles I sold.
Later that goat-hair sporran came up, with a quite ugly bronze cantle, and after a second swap I had what I was after: an Edwardian style goat-hair sporran with beautiful vintage Celtic cantle.
BTW back in those days things were generally made en suite so there was probably matching crossbelt and waistbelt hardware, and perhaps a plaid brooch.
Something like this, from an old RG Lawrie catalogue. Most, or all, of these patterns had a matching sporran cantle and matching plaid brooch.
Second from left looks similar to my cantle, but the sporran cantle that went with that belt hardware was different.
Last edited by OC Richard; 2nd February 23 at 08:16 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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