New Goat Hair Sporran on MoD Culloden Cantle!

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This will send me scrambling to my vintage photos to see if there might be any comp. (Offhand I don't think so; that style cantle is from a period before sporrans started getting hairy, and is usually seen with leather bodies.)

Richard,

The MoD cantle is, of course, a 1950s(-ish) reproduction. But in terms of timelines of that style of cantle, I have always found it interesting that a very similar style does appear simultaneously with long hairy sporrans, though not necessarily mounted on one. In MacLeay's portrait shown below, you can see three typical long-hair Victorian style sporrans alongside one short fur sporran with a cantle very similar to the MoD style (and bonus points for it being worn by a Colquhoun).



And of course, another MoD-similar style/shape is seen on a long hair sporran, at left in the following portrait. I think that cantle is more plain, lacking the knobbly bits on the front, but in terms of a half-round brass cantle with button top, it does seem to coexist with long hair sporrans.