Seal skin sporran

[OC Richard]

As people have said, that looks too long.

For people who have seen, handled, and owned large numbers of sealskin sporrans they're very easy to identify in person, and usually easy to identify in a photo. Yours is curious, there.

Sealskin has a distinctive look which I'm struggling to find words to describe. The hair is short and straight and has an odd distinctive almost metallic gleam, slightly reminiscent of a wire brush (I'm thinking of the grey seal).

I have seen that yellowish-offwhite seal that's a bit longer and fluffier, especially on vintage sporrans (it was very popular back in the 1930s etc).

Thing is, there's probably a large number of different species all with different fur. It's just that in the sporran world you see that metallic grey seal over and over and you start to equate that particular fur with 'seal'.