Earliest use of brass-cantle sporrans?

[MacRobert's Reply]

Here is one in Glasgow Museum
http://collections.glasgowmuseums.co...09432&i=387538
And there are more than a few from this era in the National Museum in Edinburgh, Walter Scott’s house and dotted around in small-town museums and castles in Scotland.

The ring designs seem to pop up everywhere. They are on Pictish symbol stones and Saxon sword hilts as well as Scottish sporrans.

[creagdhubh]

Here is one in Glasgow Museum
http://collections.glasgowmuseums.co...09432&i=387538
And there are more than a few from this era in the National Museum in Edinburgh, Walter Scott’s house and dotted around in small-town museums and castles in Scotland.

The ring designs seem to pop up everywhere. They are on Pictish symbol stones and Saxon sword hilts as well as Scottish sporrans.

Awesome sporran! I wish I would have been the person who found that beauty! Makes you wonder how many other "treasures" are still buried in and around Scotland...waiting to be found. A good mate of mine, Sandy Macpherson, who lives in Edinburgh, has an old basket-hilt sword in which he found around the hills of Glen Banchor, buried under a bit of heather and peat. He stumbled across it whilst hill-walking as a young boy in the 1940's.

Cheers,

[figheadair]

Awesome sporran! I wish I would have been the person who found that beauty! Makes you wonder how many other "treasures" are still buried in and around Scotland...waiting to be found. A good mate of mine, Sandy Macpherson, who lives in Edinburgh, has an old basket-hilt sword in which he found around the hills of Glen Banchor, buried under a bit of heather and peat. He stumbled across it whilst hill-walking as a young boy in the 1940's.

Cheers,

I've posted this before but here it is again.



This is a family sporran. What's of particular interest is the fact that the cantle is (I'm told) sand cast bronze and not brass. Doeskin bag with fully working catch. I guess it must be c1700-50.

[artificer]

I've posted this before but here it is again.



This is a family sporran. What's of particular interest is the fact that the cantle is (I'm told) sand cast bronze and not brass. Doeskin bag with fully working catch. I guess it must be c1700-50.

Good Grief Peter, I never tire of seeing that piece. Such a beauty!
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[eckersley]

I would agree with the date at around 1725 and also attribute it to the uniform of the Black Watch.

[TheOfficialBren]

This has been a fascinating thread!