Quality Sporrans for less money

[OC Richard]

I understand that a Scottish or UK made sporran is going be more expensive than a Pakistani one, but I came across these two listings which show two rather similar sporrans but at extremely different prices...

I'm always wary of guessing about sporrans if I can only see photos of the front.

Because no matter how clever the Pakistani makers are at copying the fronts of legit sporrans, the backs are generally odd, revealing their origin.

I will point out that one sporran has proper Celtic knotwork on the flap, while the other only has an outline, and isn't knotwork at all.

About tassels, as was pointed out already the presence or absence of tassels has no impact on the level of formality, or even ornateness, of a sporran.

A quite plain sporran can have tassels, and an extremely ornate expensive one can lack them.

A plain sporran with tassels.



An ornate sporran with none upon thars.



Anyhow here's a dozen gents, in various levels of formality, and nary a tassel between them.