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19th November 22, 07:49 PM
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The seller speculates that the fur is rabbit. I’m thinking it looks more like “the fur that shall not be named”. It looks a bit too coarse for rabbit.
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20th November 22, 08:51 PM
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 Originally Posted by Brian Rose
The seller speculates that the fur is rabbit. I’m thinking it looks more like “the fur that shall not be named”.
Yes it's the fur of the sea-Voldemort.
But if the seller puts "rabbit fur" on the Customs Declaration so much the better.
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27th November 22, 02:25 PM
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Antique?
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27th November 22, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by DCampbell16B
it looks vintage. I would get the measurements before bidding. It looks like a youths’ sporran.
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28th November 22, 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by piperalpha
it looks vintage. I would get the measurements before bidding. It looks like a youths’ sporran.
My thought, as well. It's popped up in my feed several times over the last few months, but the proportions look small to me.
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30th November 22, 03:56 AM
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Yes a child's or youth's size on that one.
Here's a classic plain "day" sporran in pigskin colour. In the old catalogues from the 20s and 30s "day" sporrans are often as not listed as being pigskin. Some models, with brass tops, are buckskin, some "hide" (cowhide).
Anyhow it's 10 pounds, the post to the USA is more than the sporran costs.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/30471787562...tion=10%7C3000
Not my cup of tea, but a modern "semi dress" sporran, that is, a "day" sporran made in black with seal front and Evening Dress tassels. It's already in the USA. https://www.ebay.com/itm/20416410761...tion=10%7C3000
I'm a big Nicoll Brothers fan but this seal Evening sporran is just plain ugly IMHO.
It's using the stark-yet-gaudy chrome MOD cantle of the new truncated horsehair Other Ranks sporran introduced for the Highland regiments in the late 1960s, the replacement for the 1953 Coronation Dress "Culloden" brass-top white leather sporran.
I can't recall seeing this military cantle used on a civilian sporran before. Why, who can say.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/27555805362...tion=10%7C3000
Below are the bobtailed generic hair sporrans introduced in the 1960s and I believe worn up to the creation of the Royal Regiment of Scotland (who happily were given fullsize sporrans).
Same chrome cantle for all regiments, the body made in black or white hair, with several grommets on the back to accommodate the various required tassel arrangements, all tassels now having chrome cones.
The Black Watch example is stamped RG Lawrie 1968 and is the earliest example I've come across.
Clockwise from upper left Gordon Highlanders, Black Watch, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Queens Own Highlanders.
Last edited by OC Richard; 30th November 22 at 04:20 AM.
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3rd December 22, 04:50 AM
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Evening seal sporran, modern, probably by WE Scott & Son Edinburgh, for one pound.
At some point they stopped stamping the backs of their sporrans, putting on a sticker instead. These fall off sooner or latter leaving us with an unmarked sporran, save in this case for the maker's stamp on the snap/press button.
Not my cup of tea with the black leather targe.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/27556391679...tion=10%7C3000
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23rd December 22, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Brian Rose
The seller speculates that the fur is rabbit. I’m thinking it looks more like “the fur that shall not be named”. It looks a bit too coarse for rabbit.
Is it impolitic to ask what “the fur that shall not be named” is? I was recently online window shopping for sporrans, and noticed quite a few that said “not available to US customers” in the description.
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23rd December 22, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by TheVintageLibertine
Is it impolitic to ask what “the fur that shall not be named” is? I was recently online window shopping for sporrans, and noticed quite a few that said “not available to US customers” in the description.
Not impolitic at all. Heidi Klum was once married to this type of fur.
How's that for cryptic? 
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23rd December 22, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Father Bill
Not impolitic at all. Heidi Klum was once married to this type of fur.
How's that for cryptic?
I never knew sporrans were made of R&B singers. You learn something new every day 🤯
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