Ebay stalking.....

[artificer]

Attachment 16667 Latest swipe from ebay. I could have walked to England and gotten it sooner (thanks, U.S. Customs), but it was totally worth the wait. Especially since the doublet and shipping combined were less than $100! Anyone know what the hooks on the bottom are called and where I can get a couple? I'd like to add 1 or 2 to keep the belt in place.

Nice score!

The hooks are frequently sold as Tunic or Doublet belt hooks. You can get some from What Price Glory for $2/pair, or some pipe band suppliers in UK/Pakistan carry them as well.

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[BCAC]

Attachment 16667 Latest swipe from ebay. I could have walked to England and gotten it sooner (thanks, U.S. Customs), but it was totally worth the wait. Especially since the doublet and shipping combined were less than $100! Anyone know what the hooks on the bottom are called and where I can get a couple? I'd like to add 1 or 2 to keep the belt in place.

Nice score! I'm not sure, but it seems rare to me to see a Montrose doublet with gauntlet cuffs like that. Mine has the "Prince Charlie" cuffs.

[Billleigj3]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MENS-VINTA...item3cdbe8de1a

Heres a find....... for any of you skinny guys..lol

[Kilted Cole]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MENS-VINTA...item3cdbe8de1a

Heres a find....... for any of you skinny guys..lol

Wow, I don't think I've been a 36" chest since my 10th grade year in high school. lol

[OC Richard]

Here's one of those listings for which a non-expert could be mislead

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Boer-War-Cam...item461adbae31

Somebody who didn't know better might think that this is what the seller says it is. It does look, superficially anyhow, like a Cameron Highlanders pipers' sporran.

However the pipers' sporrans adopted in the 1840s and worn right up till 1994 (when the Queens Own Highlanders was merged with the Gordon Highlanders, and the pipe band switched to the Gordon pipers' sporrans) were grey hair, not black, and the cones were 'white metal' (German silver), not black leather.

What this appears to be is a Cameron Highlanders Other Ranks' sporran with a 'white metal' cantle rim with three knobs stuck on top, making the cantle seem more or less like the pipers' sporrans.

Here's an actual Cameron Highlanders pipers' sporran which I used to own.



and here's an actual Cameron Highlanders Other Ranks' sporran



Here's a (probably) civilian 'white metal' cantle with three knobs (with the lion badge), very much like the one stuck on top of the sporran in that Ebay listing. I could take the rim, stick it on top of a Cameron Highlanders Other Ranks' sporran, and Bob's your Uncle, I have created the thing in that Ebay listing.

[OC Richard]

This is claimed to be a Black Watch sporran.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ORIGINA...p2056016.l4276

Well, it has a St Andrews badge, but these were very common on typical civilian sporrans, which this appears to be. Apart from the badge that sporran has no resemblance to a Black Watch sporran.

Here's an actual Black Watch sporran. Note the all-leather cantle with stitched leather rim, leather cones to tassels, five short tassels

[OC Richard]

Recent Ebay lovelies

A spectacular early Hunting Sporran by Kirkwood





And for the Evening!



Or if long hair sporrans are more to your liking, one from RG Lawrie Glasgow (you just have to re-attach the one tassel, no big deal)



Here's a wonderful nice old Gordon Highlanders pipers' sporran cantle



More recent, but a very nice Hunting sporran



Quite rare, the crossbelt buckle and tip for the pipers of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (but where is the keeper?)





These fitments in situ, worn by the man with the greatest moustache in the Army!



and last but not least a wonderful highly patterned tweed kilt jacket by Stewart Christie Edinburgh

[Kilted Cole]

And just won a new (used) day sporran for myself. This will probably be my more day to day sporran once it arrives.

[J Ross]

Jacket, vest, buttons on the vest, and kilt are all ebay finds.

Great outfit! The vest is especially awesome!

[OC Richard]

And just won a new (used) day sporran for myself. This will probably be my more day to day sporran once it arrives.

Very nice!

Looks like it's made by one of the legitimate UK or North American makers. Is it stamped or otherwise marked?

I used to wear one like that, but mine had the brass studs, which got dull after time and were a pain to polish