very nice sporran on Ebay

[OC Richard]

This is right up my alley! A wonderful vintage cantle on an Icelandic Sheepskin body

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Icelandic-Sh...item461bfc394b

I would buy it except I'm already wearing something similar.

I'm pretty sure that cantle is the same one that sold recently on Ebay. It's an old Gordon Highlanders pipers' sporran cantle, rather rare. I would have preferred to have seen it mounted on a horsehair sporran, with two black tassels, in other words restored to its original context. Of course it's easy to switch out cantles: I use my vintage cantle both on a goathair body and on a long black horsehair body for my military-style kit.

Here's the vintage Gordon Highlanders pipers' sporran cantle, mounted now on that sheepskin body (and with the rather odd US Southwestern style belt)



Here's the old Gordon Highlanders sporran worn by a piper of The Highlanders (not the Queens Own Highlanders, as one might think)

[artificer]

Nice cantle. The seller is our "Bonsai" chappie with a new name, btw!

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[KevinKeith]

I thought that was Bonsai! You know, he turns out some really good work and is certainly not afraid to push the envelope.
Then again, he comes up with this stuff...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Full-Mask-Ja...p2056016.l4276

Ouch!

[Tim Little]

Wow; gorgeous! And unfortunately completely unjustifiable for me. :-(

[IrishSean]

This is a very nice sporran, but not as nice are yours Richard.

[PiperOfThePlains]

Neat! I might have to snatch it. I have two of Mr. "Bonsai's" sporrans; an Icelandic sheepskin and a full mask Egyptian jackal, of course, complete with zebra skin tassels. (His name is Norman, by the way.)

The Icelandic sheepskin:
KiltDressSporranIcelandicSheepskin:Wampa.jpg

And Norman. (I wish I had a better picture of him.)
Kitchen_Piping_Winter_Steam_Winter_Storm_Jordan_And_Norman.jpg