Highland regiments sporran chart

[OC Richard]

Thanks for that photo! I'd not seen that one.

Here's a pre-amalgamation photo, I'm supposing it's the Pipe Major of the 93rd Foot.



Here's the Pipe Major (far left) and pipers of the 91st Foot in 1872, which became 1st Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in 1881.

The PM looks like he's wearing the same crossbelt hardware as the 1st Battalion PM above.



I don't have a clear photo of the Pipers' sporran cantle, in this painting it just might be the same cantle which is later seen worn by the PM and DM of the 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.



It makes sense, to keep the same sporran but change from six short tassels to three long ones. (The holes would already be in the right places.)

Question is, when the rest of the 2nd Battalion pipers got the grey sporrans, were they two-tassel, or three? I've seen old photos of Argylls pipers wearing both sorts.