This sporran recently appeared on Ebay, and it has strong affinities with a style evidently once popular but which no longer exists, which is repeatedly seen in The Highlanders Of Scotland.
The thing is that they have a metal rim around both the top and bottom of the cantle, not just around the top edge as is usual.
Here's one I posted earlier that's also of this general type
Here are similar ones in HOS
Another popular style in the 19th century was having a pentagonal cantle. This lovely example that looks like it was ripped out of the pages of HOS was up on Ebay a while back
It was my intention to have a number of HOS sporrans with extant examples, a gallery more or less, but due to this site shutting down threads my one gallery is scattered across three threads, and unnecessary redundancy.
Here's the original thread
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...s-flesh-83376/
and the 2nd one
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...reprise-90090/
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