interesting London Scottish cantle system

[artificer]

Agreed. Especially considering our recent conversation about horse hair sporrans on brass MoD cantles. If they can do it as shown above, surely a brass cantle could be made to work with a hair sporran? But even if you were to just make a replica of what we see above, it would still be awesome.

Unfortunately, I don't believe this is full storage (in the way the MoD cantles w/soft sack are). I need one more picture to be certain, but if I'm right in my guess the storage area only extends to the hinge (basically making this a coin purse) or is at best flat- there is no side gusset, so the only thing that you'd want to store in it would be paper (orders/ letters-pix from home) as you'd never be able to reach to the bottom for small items.

I found this picture in another old auction.


You can see that there is no space for a hand to get in past the hinge. What I don't know is whether or not the area at the hinge is just a 'fold' with very little extra depth or extends into the body.

I did spend a bit of time yesterday and now have a working drawing, parts list, and order-of-assembly (trust me, definitely something you need on certain sporrans )
One more picture would solidify the two remaining questions I have.

I can also say that these are all horsehair as well, no goat hair "underbody" (at least not on the 2 auction pieces I've seen pictures of)

It'll be some time before I actually get to make one of these, as November is already completely booked, but I am very excited about this sporran style.