Quality Sporrans for less money

[kiltedsawyer]

Yet another Scottish-made Evening sporran for 10 pounds.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/31645241208...Bk9SR-6m0_mvZQ

This one looks like seal skin. I bought a plain brown leather sporran from KA and it took 3 weeks to get through Customs. I don't think this one will make it.
Cheers,

David

[OC Richard]

Seal has been illegal to import since the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.

Nevertheless, quantities of seal sporrans made in Pakistan come into the US regularly. How they all get through Customs who can say.

When Customs does catch a seal item they usually confiscate it, but more often than not seal sporrans slip through.

[jsrnephdoc]

Yet another Scottish-made Evening sporran for 10 pounds.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/31645241208...Bk9SR-6m0_mvZQ

Nice, but not different enough from the one Evening Sporran I now own for me to challenge the customs inspectors.

[OC Richard]

Now for something completely different, a Quality Sporran for MORE Money.

The seller claims it's Mink and Sterling Silver.

I told the seller that they're going to need to show a photo of the silver hallmarks to proceed with that claim.

I sent them a photo showing what the FN or D&N hallmarks look like. Narborough didn't send things out missing the hallmarks.

I also told them that if the cantle is stamped Made In Scotland on one side it's silver plated. It's rare for silverplated Narborough cantles to not have that stamp, though I have seen it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20534676345...Bk9SR5bNu5exZQ

[Troglodyte]

Now for something completely different, a Quality Sporran for MORE Money.

The seller claims it's Mink and Sterling Silver.

I told the seller that they're going to need to show a photo of the silver hallmarks to proceed with that claim.

I sent them a photo showing what the FN or D&N hallmarks look like. Narborough didn't send things out missing the hallmarks.

I also told them that if the cantle is stamped Made In Scotland on one side it's silver plated. It's rare for silverplated Narborough cantles to not have that stamp, though I have seen it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/20534676345...Bk9SR5bNu5exZQ

Good luck to the seller with that one..!

Vastly over-priced in my view (by about ten times), but buyer beware, and a fool and his money...

My guess it is silver-plated at best, and mounted on a fairly recent (1990s) Scott-made sporran with very few of their earlier characteristic features.

A fairer price would be less than $100.

[jsrnephdoc]

Now for something completely different, a Quality Sporran for MORE Money.

The seller claims it's Mink and Sterling Silver.

I told the seller that they're going to need to show a photo of the silver hallmarks to proceed with that claim.

I sent them a photo showing what the FN or D&N hallmarks look like. Narborough didn't send things out missing the hallmarks.

I also told them that if the cantle is stamped Made In Scotland on one side it's silver plated. It's rare for silverplated Narborough cantles to not have that stamp, though I have seen it.

Is it "legal" to import mink or ermine sporrans? It wouldn't be "legal" to import either into the presence of my spouse

[MacKenzie]

Is it "legal" to import mink or ermine sporrans?

Go back to post #1032

[jsrnephdoc]

Go back to post #1032

So far as I can tell, that deals solely with seal fur, and implies that no one need worry "much" about getting caught, but I'd rather just make certain I'm compliant. I'm pretty sure that fox fur and rabbit fur are OK, but mink and ermine I'd worry about (but then, I'd have to be desirous of HAVING one, which is probably not the case…

[Flotineer]

Is it "legal" to import mink or ermine sporrans? It wouldn't be "legal" to import either into the presence of my spouse

I don’t know the answer, but It’s already int the US, if that’s where you’re asking about importing to.

[jsrnephdoc]

I don’t know the answer, but It’s already int the US, if that’s where you’re asking about importing to.

It was more of a curiosity question. One possible way of inferring what's legal might be to put a fur sporran in one's online "cart" at a place like Kinloch Anderson, or Nicolson Kiltmakers, or Houston Kiltmakers. If they say "not available for shipment to the US," that might be a clue that importation is forbidden (or would have, in normal times). These days, the "rules" could change 3 times before noon!