Ultimate Dress Sporran?

[Panache]

I like that sporran, Jamie.

Sandford,

Coming from you that is a high compliment!

Cheers

Jamie

[raibeart_dubh]

I have a Ferguson Brit sporran in black mink and I have a full mask raccoon sporran.

But to me, the sporran that looks best with black and white tie is going to be a fur/hide sporran with a silver/chrome cantle

This is mine in black and white calf skin



Cheers

Jamie

Very sharp! The other repsonses have also been very sharp. You guys are making my decision even harder! Just kidding I truly appreciate all of the photos and input. Keep 'em coming!

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Jamie-- that is really a nice looking sporran. I especially like the "weight" of the cantle. As to my "ultimate" dress sporran? I'd kill (quite literally) to have one like that worn by the late Jock Hay of Delgattie. It was made from the hide of a leopard that Jock shot in Africa while it was mauling one of his bearers. Absolutely the stuff of legends, Jock was, and the kind of man who deserved that kind of sporran. If I ever get the chance to bag a leopard you can bet your bottom dollar it'll end up as sporran for me and a 'skin for the drummer in our local pipe band.

[Bugbear]

One of these days, I plan on having a sporran made of bear fur with bear paw motif cantle.

[Bob C]

I don't care for full mask sporrans. I have a very nice holstein calf skin semi-dress sporran and formal rabbit fur sporrans in both gray and white with cantles.

I think I'd like one in red fox fur.

[Rob Wright]

There are some very nice faux seal fur sporrans around, I have one in a semi-dress model, and I am eying one from the Scottish Tartan Museum for my eventual Formal outfit. As you can see here: http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/msf-5030.jpg

Rob

[YoungMan]

Stumbled into this little leopard number after hearing the Jock Hay story. Don't know if this one mauled anyone. (Does that increase or decrease value?)

https://www.celticempire.com/quickCa...46/524.med.jpg

[Ancienne Alliance]

Here is mine....



Made by Lady Chrystel from my old aunty's mink coat ! My dear wife is planning to make me more of these.... in Red Fox from Normandy, etc.


Best,

Robert:ootd:

[Bugbear]

Thinking about the Panache doublet... A bottle green or darker, velvet doublet might look good with a bear fur sporran (very very dark brown), but I want a brass cantle with the bear paw motif, and brass, bear paw motif buttons on the doublet.

Sorry, just dreaming...

[JolyStNicholas]

Every Good Will and second hand store I enter that is the first thing I ask "
Do you have and Fox or Mink head Stols or wraps? One of these days I'll find a nice one and shortly there after a beautiful sporran will hang from my waist, for pictures,then be in the "For Sale Column" of the board!