Is there any meaning to the type of fur on your sporran

**thescot** · 22nd February 10, 08:18 PM

I think that the fur usually is termed "slow beaver."

**Smayniac** · 22nd February 10, 08:26 PM

I have badger, although not as imposing as an A&S sporran; I suppose you could call him a starter sporran. I'd like an American badger, a possum and a skunk; I do say hello sporran when I see a raccoon cross in front of my car, but I haven't yet punched the pedal to catch one. I do think it's about preference and attitude.

Bob

**auld argonian** · 22nd February 10, 08:47 PM

I do think of muskrat as a good possibility...nice fur and in a reasonable price bracket...

...if the "local animal" thing is to be observed, though, it's increasingly becoming coyote even here in the city.

Best

AA

**kiltimabar** · 22nd February 10, 10:31 PM

I always have wanted a skunk fur sporran, because I thought the black and white would go well with the black PC and argyll evening wear, but the full mask ones were so expensive. Then a recent poll disclosed that a great many people are repelled by full mask sporrans--so I got a skunk fur sporran sans mask. I love it. Just dressy enough, but not grotesque to the casual observer.

**ThistleDown** · 22nd February 10, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by thescot

I think that the fur usually is termed "slow beaver."

, but good, Jim.

**ThistleDown** · 22nd February 10, 11:26 PM

I've a very old beaver that I don't wear anymore but that has great memories, and a new L&M beaver I do wear for obvious patriotic reasons. Good to wear it with a Maple Leaf kilt and a silver beaver pin.

I often wear a full-mount Scots badger that's a re-make of the remains of my grandfather's sporran apparently rended by his dogs at some time, and my great-grandfather's Scots wildcat now stuffed with mothballs. In the drawer there's also a mink I wore when I was a wee lad and two more recently acquired seals.

**D.A. Guertin** · 23rd February 10, 08:54 AM

I wear and make sporrans out of whatever suits my mood at the moment. My personal preference is actually for the less exotic - sheep and goat. I have cattle and deer, of course, and the ubiquitous rabbit, but they simply are not my usual wear. Of the assorted skins I have around (springbok, mink, walrus, etc), I doubt that I'll wear more than one of them, but tastes do vary, so I use them.

**ForresterModern** · 23rd February 10, 09:45 AM

I've white fox full mask, red fox full mask with cantle, primitive dyed brown fox, non-mask skunk, bovine dress, two other dress and a semidress from a fur to be named later.

Others I have seen and lusted...errrr, desired are springbok and fallow deer, lynx/bobcat mask or non-mask, and badger full mask.

jeff

**Lallans** · 23rd February 10, 10:17 AM

Like Mr Newguise, I wear a sealskin sporran, and like him I do so in part to support fellow Canadians who have to hunt seals for economic reasons and are attacked for doing so. I for one wish to stand firm against Bridgitte Bardot....