This is a very interesting sporran, though a style I have little interest in.
It's the sporran which, in some serendipity of fate, would become probably the best-selling sporran style of all time.
In the 1990s style-leading Grade One bands started going to these, and by the 2000s and 2010s I would see all but two or three of the G1 bands at the Worlds wearing them.
Indeed I saw many contests at all levels where every band was wearing them.
WE Scott, Nicoll Brothers, and others in Scotland, L&M in Nova Scotia, and endless makers in Pakistan were making these. Ian Grant had their own twist on the style.
But this Ebay one, by WE Scott, is probably the earliest I've seen. (I'm talking about the ubiquitous black & chrome ones; I've seen ones which appear older in brown with brass tops.)
The reason I think it's early is because it has the scribe-line which was part of WE Scott's Patent design which they introduced in 1953.
But it lacks the Patent stamp. Thing is, I don't know just when they stopped using the Patent stamp, and after that just when they stopped doing the scribe line.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/13515242886...Bk9SR4KMj6yYZA
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