re-badged Ebay sporran

[OC Richard]

One sees this all the time, old civilian sporrans with military badges stuck on them, or in this case an old Black Watch sporran with a Cameron Highlanders cap badge stuck on.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/11582676133...Bk9SR-jr3svDYg

Obviously actual Cameron Highlanders sporrans looked entirely different, and they had a dedicated sporran badge, not a cap badge.

Here are the three Cameron Highlanders sporrans

Left: Other Ranks (also worn by officers in Service Dress)
Centre: pipers
Right: officers Full Dress and Levee Dress



Here's a Black Watch sporran with its original badge. Note the cantle shape which was unique to the Black Watch.

[OC Richard]

Now here's something quite different and strange.

It appears to be a Black Watch Other Ranks sporran (you can see the leather cantle peeking out) which has had a much earlier Black Watch officers/sergeants/pipers sporran cantle crudely stuck on top.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/12606098197....c100667.m2042

We're familiar with the cast-in-one-piece Black Watch gilt officers/sergeants/pipers cantles (now worn by the entire RRS) but early ones were pieced together, having a number of cast bits attached to a sheet-metal backing.

Here's the cast-in-one-piece BW officers/sergeants/pipers cantle, an exceptionally fine example.



Here's the early kind with cast bits attached to a sheet metal backing plate.