Quality Sporrans for less money

[OC Richard]

One thing I should address are the tons of horrible Pakistani imitations of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders sergeants/officers badger sporrans.

Here's one. The "head" is pieced together from black and white rabbit skins, and the body seems to be rabbit too.

Also the hardware is wrong. These Pakistani things seem to always have ordinary semicircular cantles, whereas the actual ASH sporrans have a unique gently curved brass cantle which, by the way, doesn't open. Rather the cantle is more or less a fixed clasp holding the various parts together- to get inside the sporran you lift up the head.

And the actual ASH badger sporrans had unique cones, serrated edge and upside-down thistles.



cf. four real ASH badger sporrans. Far right is by L&M using a North American badger.

Second right is probably from a Volunteer Battalion due to the silver hardware.