Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
It does make one wonder where these ideas come from. I'm sure the seller believes it to be fact, but why?

At least it's a break from the usual type of Ebay seller nonsense like the horrible bagpipes made in Pakistan in the 1980s which the seller claims were "recovered from a WWI battlefield". I have seen so many of these claims that it creates a picture of visiting a WWI battlefield years later and finding the ground so strewn with bagpipes that you can hardly walk without stepping on one.

And all the civilian sporrans, often boy's sporrans, which are invariably claimed to be a "military officer's sporran" and usually from "the Boar War".

Just why bagpipes were played a hundred times more commonly in WWI than at any time before or after, and sporrans existed a hundred times more commonly in the Boer War than at any time before or after, are two of life's little mysteries.
It's just like every violin is an antique and a genuine Stradivarius (a pox upon whoever started to put those "copy of..." labels in violins), every spinning wheel is from 1800 (or earlier), etc.