Quality Sporrans for less money

[ShaunMaxwell]

I’ve been watching this one on eBay and wondering why someone hasn’t snapped it up at the price:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133697508222

It’s listed as a Kinloch Anderson sporran, but I’m betting it was made by McRostie:

https://www.kinlochanderson.com/shop...ssels-in-black

https://www.mcrostie.co.uk/product/hastings/

SM

[Garth]

I’ve been watching this one on eBay and wondering why someone hasn’t snapped it up at the price:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133697508222

It’s listed as a Kinloch Anderson sporran, but I’m betting it was made by McRostie:

https://www.kinlochanderson.com/shop...ssels-in-black

https://www.mcrostie.co.uk/product/hastings/

SM

This sporran looks rather cheap and to my eye not really made well.

[KennethSime]

I’ve been watching this one on eBay and wondering why someone hasn’t snapped it up at the price:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133697508222

It’s listed as a Kinloch Anderson sporran, but I’m betting it was made by McRostie:

https://www.kinlochanderson.com/shop...ssels-in-black

https://www.mcrostie.co.uk/product/hastings/

SM

Hmm... do you happen to know if Kinloch Anderson sells McRostie Sporrans at a £100 markup? Because that's definitely what it looks like, hah.

[ShaunMaxwell]

This sporran looks rather cheap and to my eye not really made well.

Well, it’s a dead ringer for my McRostie, though it looks a bit roughed up.

SM

[OC Richard]

I just found this for $28 plus $22 shipping. I didn't trust this at first because it looks similar to some Pakistani sporrans I've found, but it has a Made in Scotland stamp on the back. What do you think? Worth it?
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Very much worth it! Good find.

That pattern has been around since the 1930s (if not earlier) and in the old catalogues it was called AZSF.

I have no clue what AZSF stands for. Many of the designations make sense, like BS for Boy Scouts and HB for Highland Brigade. With some code letters I don't know what they stand for but from context I know what they refer to, for example the Evening Dress sporrans with G forming part of their designation have the cantle with the big dome.

In any case, here's a collage I put together of some of the variety seen over the years with AZSF sporrans:



I suppose I shouldn't have included the sporran at bottom left, due to its flap stamp being clearly different. Though from a different maker who used their own version of the AZSF flap stamp I feel that it's part of the AZSF family.

Your particular model isn't seen in the catalogue below, yours being like AZSF/1 but having the body stamp as well as the flap stamp:



Here's the earliest I've seen the AZSF pattern, in this catalogue from 1938 (bottom left)

[OC Richard]

I’ve been watching this one on eBay and wondering why someone hasn’t snapped it up at the price:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133697508222

It’s listed as a Kinloch Anderson sporran, but I’m betting it was made by McRostie:

https://www.kinlochanderson.com/shop...ssels-in-black

https://www.mcrostie.co.uk/product/hastings/

SM

It has an Eye Of Sauron thing about it...

[Bakuda]

Very much worth it! Good find.

That pattern has been around since the 1930s (if not earlier) and in the old catalogues it was called AZSF.

I have no clue what AZSF stands for. Many of the designations make sense, like BS for Boy Scouts and HB for Highland Brigade. With some code letters I don't know what they stand for but from context I know what they refer to, for example the Evening Dress sporrans with G forming part of their designation have the cantle with the big dome.

In any case, here's a collage I put together of some of the variety seen over the years with AZSF sporrans:



I suppose I shouldn't have included the sporran at bottom left, due to its flap stamp being clearly different. Though from a different maker who used their own version of the AZSF flap stamp I feel that it's part of the AZSF family.

Your particular model isn't seen in the catalogue below, yours being like AZSF/1 but having the body stamp as well as the flap stamp:



Here's the earliest I've seen the AZSF pattern, in this catalogue from 1938 (bottom left)

With that little bit of reassurance I went on ahead and placed the order. $50 for a fine looking sporran. Can’t wait to get it!

[OC Richard]

Here's a beautiful seal Evening sporran, super low opening bid, no bids at this time.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sporran-Sma...ndition=4%7C10

I'll have to double check but this cantle style might be one of those that was around in the 1930s, went out of production (or into lesser production) for a time, then went into mass production in the 1980s.

The cantle is silver plate.



The listing says it's a "small" sporran but happily they give the measurements which show that it's an ordinary fullsize adult sporran.

I can see the ANDERSON half of the stamp, most likely KINLOCH ANDERSON.

Describing the sporran as "brown and red" might seem odd to Americans (like me) but I've seen and discussed enough colour samples and tweed swatches to come to understand that the word "brown" has different connotations in the UK and in the USA.

Here in the USA "brown" connotes a colour that would be called "chocolate" or "walnut" in Britain.

I have seen, over and over, tweeds in a colour that Americans would regard midway between grey and mid-brown, which we would normally call "gray" or if we were being more fashion-precise would call "taupe" but which in Britain are called "brown".

Here is a suit described as "brown tweed"

[Crazy Dave]

I can see the ANDERSON half of the stamp, most likely KINLOCH ANDERSON.

Beautiful sporran! Where do you see the ANDERSON half of the stamp? I have recently purchase a made in Scotland piper's sporran and I wanted to figure out who made it.

TIA!

Dave

[ThistleDown]

Rear view, lower half, within the chain loop, embossed in the leather. Use the zoom feature.