Seal skin sporrans?

[fluter]

I've got a local raccoon, who, should I be lucky enough to get a crack at it, will end up as my full mask.

That's very attractive, too, albeit generally I prefer raccoons as neighbors instead of accessories. But the skunk just goes so well with formalwear!

[artificer]

albeit generally I prefer raccoons as neighbors instead of accessories.

Ah, but this particular one tore up 2 feet of seaming on my rubber roof, and is currently 'napping' under my back deck.

So it's personal.

[Andrew M. Stewart]

Now I'm wondering if there is some new ban I haven't hear of in effect- or looming or something. Can you share any such info, AMS?

This is what i've read:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...er-EU-ban.html

I was in a local kilt shop here in Toronto and the guys said that is looked like April 10th was the day.

[Andrew M. Stewart]

I was in the Artic (Baffin Island) in '92 as part of a sovereignty excercise with the CF. I can say with some certainty that unless a film crew is filming, only the older generation wear seal, the rest wear modern stuff, not that it's better.

Frank

Next your gonna tell us they don't live in igloo's anymore either!

[beerbecue]

I think if I were ever going to get a sporran, I would get a full mask skunk sporran, and not worry about all this silver and seal or fake silver and fake seal business.

Seeing as how useful skunks are in keeping pests down, I have reversed my decision some time ago to have a skunk sporran....

Am going to stick to horsehair or goat hair at this point.....

[Bugbear]

Seeing as how useful skunks are in keeping pests down, I have reversed my decision some time ago to have a skunk sporran....

Am going to stick to horsehair or goat hair at this point.....

I will have to settle for a little skunk lapel pin, if I can find one, because a new sporran is not in my near future.

I wonder if a zebra design could be made of a horse hair sporran; better yet, a zebra hair sporran. That would probably be very expencive.

[D.A. Guertin]

Just a matter of finding a hide somewhere and having it made up, no problem at all. You could even find a few people to go in with since a sporran requires so little material from an entire hide. I've seen them for as little as $500 at antique shops and gun shows... I'd even go so far as to say that if someone were to find a hide with the help of a few other people, I'd make the sporrans just for the remnants.

[ccga3359]

Next your gonna tell us they don't live in igloo's anymore either!

They still live in igloos in Toronto, then there`s the great Annual Toronto Polar Bear Hunt held every March...

[Lallans]

I'm kinda uneducated here...is there some long standing historic Scottish tradition of wearing sealskin sporrans...??

Or are/were sealsking sporrans just a fashion thing?

Funny how no one seems to have an answer for this recurring question. I always understood that seal skin was traditional because seals were historically hunted in coastal Scotland and the Islands and the skins used for most everything. Canadian propoganda perhaps, but it makes sense.

Perhaps there's a modern-day coverup due to the high Euro- emotions (Euromotions) involved?

[D.A. Guertin]

It's my understanding that seal skin really has only been 'traditional' for the last hundred years or so. More common animals seem to have been the norm prior to that...