This comes up all the time on Ebay, somebody selling an authentic vintage military sporran that, sadly, some previous owner has altered.

This is an unusually bizarre example: it's an old Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Other Ranks sporran, dated 1924, in quite good condition.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-ARG...temCondition=4

Yes three of the six original tassels are missing.

The strange part is that somebody has stuck a piece of exotic (faux) animal fur under the rim! Who can say why. (This style of sporran lacks a cantle per se, there's just a brass rim and a leather liner/gasket.)

Hopefully the horsehair at the top, near the rim, is intact. Then a buyer could remove the ridiculous leopard fur and have themselves a nice sporran. But I worry that the extra piece of fur was added to hide damage.