Canadians may have a free hand then...

The US Fish & Wildlife website is pretty informative, and this section may give the answer to doubts US residents may have about acquiring a seal-fur sporran - https://fwsepermits.servicenowservic...a520eae54bcbb6

It seems to suggest that if you have not caught, killed and skinned the protected species, and the item is for you own personal use, a product made from such fur in another country is acceptable - a Scottish-made sporran, for example.

Additionally, there is also a sort of cut-off date of 1971, and it looks like products made prior to that date might be exempt anyway. I'm pretty sure the Paisley's sporran pre-dates that by about 30 years.

This seems to apply to the USA as a whole, but other sections of the website shows contact and information details for the different states, so it could be there are local differences.

It also seems possible to be granted a licence to import restricted items under certain conditions, but that is mostly for scientific purposes. Would wearing a seal-skin sporran for different events qualify as 'scientific reasearch'..?