need a sporranmaker! please help.

[OC Richard]

I recently bought a gorgeous Victorian sporran cantle on Ebay.

And I have a lovely Icelandic sheep skin. Wonderful long white hair.

What I need is a sporranmaker who can make me up a sporran using these things.

Some things I'm looking for:

-no tassels

-opening top, with a little flap of leather with a snap on it for closure, like normal modern Scottish Evening Dress sporrans.

-nice largish roomy size

Anybody out there who can do this? Thanks, Richard

[D.A. Guertin]

Easy peasy, and my no tassels is my specialty! :-) I'll be away for the day, but feel free to mail me at Darryl(dot)Guertin(at)GMail.com, where I'll have access through my mobile all day.

[Dram]

I recently bought a gorgeous Victorian sporran cantle on Ebay.

And I have a lovely Icelandic sheep skin. Wonderful long white hair.

What I need is a sporranmaker who can make me up a sporran using these things.

Some things I'm looking for:

-no tassels

-opening top, with a little flap of leather with a snap on it for closure, like normal modern Scottish Evening Dress sporrans.

-nice largish roomy size

Anybody out there who can do this? Thanks, Richard

Have a picture Rich?

[Wompet]

Nothing against D.A., but for a functioning dress sporran, I recommend Turpin.

TCS#140 - silver fox with cantle. Additional pictures are in my gallery.

[OC Richard]

I just took photos of the cantle in question, along with some other old cantles I have.





It's the one in the upper right side, of sheet metal, hand engraved with a thistle and crude St Andrews Cross. It looks to be quite old, Victorian.

It has the cool feature, seen on many old cantles, of having the centre knob larger than the outer knobs.

It has the usual three threaded posts like modern Evening Dress cantles do, but it's somewhat larger, 6 11/16" across as opposed to the usual modern 6".

The Celtic Dragon cantle and the Lion Rampant cantle both exhibit another old way of attachment: holes on each side that little thin nails go through, and are then bent over to hold the cantle in place.

The brass cantle is a 1953 MOD "Culloden" cantle which I'd love to have an 18th Century style leather pouch made for.

[thescot]

REally nice stuff, OC. Thanks for sharing it. I like to ruminate about what to do one day when I can get around to similar efforts.

I can recommend Turpin myself as far as having a really good, functional--as well as lovely--sporrin. No offense to anyone else, but I can vouch for Turpin personally.

Keep us posted.