Quote Originally Posted by Troglodyte View Post

I wonder if Scotts still have their original templates, patterns, etc, and if they would be willing to start making the vintage style again. Surely there's a market for them..?
That's a great question.

Their business model since around WWII has been to progressively simplify their manufacturing, getting rid of little elegant touches one by one.

I wonder what the state of their "corporate memory" is. Sometimes old firms are entirely staffed by new people who are clueless as to what the firm was doing only 20 years ago, sometimes old firms have people who have worked there a half-century who have detailed knowledge of the firm's history.

It was like that where I worked. When I started at Disneyland in 1989 there were still people who had worked there since 1955. There were people everywhere who worked there "in the day" (Walt's day, he died in 1966). One by one they retired till nobody who knew Walt was left. When I retired last year I was the last person in my department who had worked there in the 20th century.

Yes with the success of Margaret Morrison one would think that WE Scott could introduce a "heritage line" of sporrans with all the artistry and craftsmanship of their 1930s work.