LOL. Wow, it's not like the cantle on top even fits or looks right, either. There's a gap between the top of the flap and the cantle. The pieces do look like they'd be very nice as separate items. But it's hard to take the thing seriously with them put together like that.
It is strange, isn't it. The cantle apart, do we think that the front flap is just for show and that the real sporran is the small pocket in the back. Or that they both function. Or that they are two sporrans that have been put together and then a cantle added.
Good questions. At first I thought this was a regular flap closure sporran with a cantle crudely jammed on top. But the more I look at it, that flap is stitched across at the top. And when I see the back side, I see no evidence that the flap comes over the top. So it's possible that the flap was just a front decorative piece, and it was never intended to open from the top (with all access being from the rear pocket opening). Either that, or it would have originally had a square functional opening cantle mounted on top. It's hard to say.
But it's pretty easy to see that whatever the original configuration, this cantle doesn't go with it! And since it seems that this cantle is non-functional (i.e. non-opening), the only access now is through the rear pocket.
I just looked at his ME page on eBay -
S Smith 6 Wells Road
Fakenham
Norfolk
NR21 9AA
UK
He lives 25 miles down the road from me! If I can get there in the next 9 days I will give us all an update. Take a few extra pictures as well.
Regards
Chas
I hadn't realised till my wife just pointed it out - she was born at Number 4 Wells Road!
Originally Posted by OC Richard
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