What are the dimensions? Especially what is the width of the cantle at its widest point?
Because the proportions look a bit like a youth's sporran, but it's hard to know from photos sometimes.
About the date, it's probably not Victorian, but rather probably around 1910 at the earliest and around 1940 at the latest.
Those cantles were cast from solid nickel-silver AKA German silver AKA cupro-nickel. It was by far the most common metal for bagpipe mounts, sporran cantles, buckles, cap badges, etc from Victorian times up till around WWII.
For some reason around the 1950s they started casting cantles and buckles from brass and plating them with nickel, later with chrome.
If you look under the horsehair in front you might see that the front panel of the sporran body is faced with goat hair. That's the older way to make horsehair sporrans.
It looks like a civilian sporran, which is interesting because the sporrans I've seen stamped Leckie Graham have been MOD regimental sporrans.
Here's a Seaforth Highlanders sporran stamped Leckie Graham Glasgow 1910
Last edited by OC Richard; 3rd January 23 at 04:35 PM.
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