Yet Another ex-MoD Cantle Clears $200US on eBay

[artificer]

Sorry Woodsheal! I'm the guy who won this...

Artificer, I'll be contacting you about making some extra bags for this one...

Congratulations, celt72- it's gorgeous. And welcome to the club. Membership costs seem to be going up all the time!

Yeah, I think the days of seeing these go for less than $200 are over. Unless one just happens to sneak through under the radar, there's enough interest in them to keep the selling price up. And I expect they'll go for even more than this as time goes by and they get harder and harder to find.

celt72, welcome to the MoD cantle club!

I think you're right, Tobus. These won't be getting any cheaper anytime soon. But one of the great things about brass is, barring a MAJOR accident, they'll practically be around forever. Maybe they'll fall out of fashion again in 50-100 years and our grandchildren/great-grandchildren can re-start the market

Scott and Harold
Just a thought but is it the fact that you do wonderful work that may be the reason that the price for these is going up, ie people are buying them because you turn them into a work of art. I know where I would be sending mine if I was ever lucky enough to get one.

I don't know if Harold and I are to blame, but I'm sure the constant threads on X-Marks are probably helping to drive up interest (and prices). I'm honestly a bit surprised that there wasn't more of a market for them in the past.

How excellent Kyle, looks like great leather that Artificer used there. With all these MoD cantles that Scott is resurrecting with superb bags, I think the current head of the MoD should at least mention him in dispatches. Congratulations Kyle on the fine acquisition

That would certainly be one for the scrap-book!

I sometimes wonder what the Highlanders who wore these originally with their "blasted blanco" bags would think of the new life these are being given.

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