Quality Sporrans for less money

[OC Richard]

How about vintage sporrans in horrible condition for more money?

I'm speechless...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/11719903208...102140.m167418

[BobF]

How about vintage sporrans in horrible condition for more money?

I'm speechless...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/11719903208...102140.m167418

My first thought was that it’s the sporran equivalent of Bill the Cat from the old Bloom County comic strip. I fully expect it to have fleas and cough up a fur ball.

[User]

How about vintage sporrans in horrible condition for more money?

I'm speechless...

I'm fairly certain that's going to appear in my nightmares tonight.

[OC Richard]

WE Scott plain brown Day sporran £10.

I think what people will really be bidding on is that lovely long-link chain strap.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/15791244592...Bk9SR_ysk__GZw

[OC Richard]

They sure don't like posting pictures of the internal design. I'm not sure why when that's what makes them unique. It looks like the double-flap may be purely cosmetic on some models. The double gusset is interesting. It should be able to fit a lot. But I wonder how the flap looks when both gussets are fully extended.

Here's an Ebay listing with several photos showing how the flaps work and the slots inside (for credit cards etc?)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/33658948737...102140.m167418

Oh and by the way a Kommando Kilt with the "designed in Scotland" label often seen on Pakistani kilts. It's crudely machine stitched and has around a 3 inch fell.

Nice to see a fabric content label tell the truth ("100% acrylic") rather than the nonsensical Pakistani term "acrylic wool" which is so often seen. However there doesn't seem to be a country of origin label as required by US law.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/19836610905...102140.m167418

Now this machine-stitched Kommando Kilt has a fabric content label saying "viscose Rayon" and "acetate"

https://www.ebay.com/itm/31832718000...102140.m167418

[OC Richard]

More "country of origin" silliness, a kilt pin stamped "Scotland" listed as being from Japan.

By the way the price is absurd. They're asking more for a base-metal modern kilt pin than Sterling Silver kilt pins from the 1950s sell for.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/35857242923...102140.m167418

[geomick]

More "country of origin" silliness, a kilt pin stamped "Scotland" listed as being from Japan.

By the way the price is absurd. They're asking more for a base-metal modern kilt pin than Sterling Silver kilt pins from the 1950s sell for.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/35857242923...102140.m167418

they are shipping it from Japan

[OC Richard]

They are shipping it from Japan.

Ah, I see.

Understandable, I guess they don't understand what "country of origin" is meant to mean.

It reminds me of when my workplace came up with the idea that everybody's name badge should state their "home town". You had to fill out a form.

Problem was, for a good percentage of our work force English is a second language and evidently few were familiar with the term "home town".

Thousands of employees from other countries came to the conclusion that it meant the town their home was in i.e. where they currently reside.

[OC Richard]

Never say never, they say.

I don't know how many times I've said that WE Scott Edinburgh never stamped their name on their sporrans.

Over the last 50 years I've seen thousands of their sporrans and never has one been stamped with their name.

Until now!

A Queens Own Highlanders sergeants' sporran.

(I didn't know they even had a stamp. Now I wonder how many blurry photos I assumed were their usual Made In Scotland Real Leather stamp but were actually this one.)