odd Cameron Highlanders sporran Ebay

[OC Richard]

This is very strange indeed

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERB-SCOTT...p2056016.l4276

It might have started life as a Cameron Highlanders sporran but it ended up being a strange mash-up.

A Black Watch badge rather than the Cameron badge, and what look to be four tassels from an Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders sporran (missing their cones) replacing the original tassels.

Now for sure there were a large number of TA and Volunteer battalions with all sorts of odd uniforms and regalia, but if this is one of those it's new to me.

Here's the photo from the listing



For reference here's a standard Cameron Highlanders sporran



Where the badge might have come from



Where the tassels might have come from



Another strange new listing is this sporran, which I would call a "fantasy" sporran

http://www.ebay.com/itm/79th-NY-Civi...MAAOSwVC1XL9QN

A photo from the listing



I don't think the 79th New York ever wore anything remotely like that cantle.

In this post-war photo you can see the pre-war 1858-1861 sporran on the far right; the others are wearing the post-war sporran. All of the cantles are plain black leather without tooling.

[IsaacW]

That odd Cameron sporran looks not that it has 4 tassels, but rather the normal two and they have been "sculpted" with a bad haircut to look like 4 tassels.