Why fur for formal sporrans?

[JSFMACLJR]

Here is a very fine sporran:


I can envision this being worn in the evening. My idea of a black suede sporran might include white, too.

[Brian K]

Here is a very fine sporran:


I can envision this being worn in the evening. My idea of a black suede sporran might include white, too.

Well, my PS was a rhetorical challenge for someone to fabricate one of the quality you described. Until then, I feel this would be more than adequate!

[Bugbear]

I found it. Not sure why the search feature was not working.

No, I don't have a photo, I'm sorry to say. The one I saw being worn was at a Knights of Malta ball held in the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh ten or fifteen years ago. It was a very deep sea-green with gilt tassels and finely engraved silver gilt cantle, and about the size of a modern seal skin sporran. I suspect the velvet may have been backed by very heavy buckram, or pehraps vellum, to keep the bag from loosing its shape.

I also seem to remember seeing one in the National Museum in Edinburgh, although it may have been on display at Kinloch Anderson's in Leith, or possibly in the Kelvin Grove in Glasgow. I honestly can't recall.

It is actually my fault he was talking about this, if you read the thread.

I didn't quite understand a comment he made about rabbit fur sporrans, and I probably replied too bluntly.

* and reading some of the other posts in that thread, it does seem to relate to this thread.