Types of sporran

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Here's a short breakdown.

Day sporrans can be brown or black leather. Traditionally (last 100yrs or so) brass was the day metal, silver for evenings. A few styles are:

the plain military style pouch and flap. Sometimes you see this style tarted up with tassels, fur, studs or tooling, but they're all the same basic shape and function. Sometimes the really fancied up ones are called 'semi-dress';

Here's a fine example of the plain military styled day sporran that was beautifully crafted by our own Artificer:







When I commissioned Scott to craft Artficer #6, I found my inspiration in the post WW1 to WW2 era military sporrans (I have an original Australian Army version from late 1940 to 1950).