Quality Sporrans for less money

[OC Richard]

This is one of those sporrans that's had aftermarket modifications which result in a strange beast that doesn't match up with anything any UK maker would have made.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20450208358...%7C1750%7C3000

It's billed as a Royal Regiment of Scotland sporran. It isn't.

From the front we see a decent-looking Black Watch style cantle, and there are five short black tassels, but there the similarity to a legit Black Watch sporran ends.

For one thing there's a crude ill-fitting green gasket/liner.

Next are the cones, which as we know on Black Watch sporrans are plain black leather, but here they're crude imitations of cones made by wrapping gold fabric trim around the top of the tassels.

As is often the case seeing the back of the sporran tells us more than the front.

We can see it's a WE Scott & Son long horsehair sporran body which has had the original cantle (almost certainly one of the standard civilian pipe band styles) removed and had the Black Watch-ish cantle crudely stuck on.

We can also see how holes were punched all the way through for the cords to hold the tassels, and the original proper grommeted holes showing us the sporran came from the maker with two tassels.