Royal Inspiration- I've Been Wanting To Make One Like This For A LONG Time!

[artificer]

Thanks chaps! It's been one heck of a project. I spent a literal WEEK studying various images of the two prince's sporrans (and no, not these "Two Princes".. ) while doing the technical drawings. Then, my regular rivet guys would only do nickel silver plated rivets (over steel), and I'd need to order 1000 at a time, so between that and the hinge knobs and finial-pull I went ahead and bought a micro metal lathe to do the work myself.

What more can I add? Absolutely beautiful sporrans both. I am sure these will outlive us all and become heirloom items, which is the highest praise for any item of kit.

It's funny you say that, my (long suffering) wife always jokes that someday my work end up on some version of "Antiques Roadshow" so I should probably keep better records to make things easier for future collectors.

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