Antique & Vintage Sporran Archive
Antique & Vintage Scottish Sporran Archive
Fine vintage sporrans from the 18th – 20th centuries. From original antique Jacobite sporrans from the 45 to high Victorian and Edwardian designs.
This page is an archive of past finds that can be used as a reference source. The sporrans on this page have been sold.
A Sporran is a pouch (Scottish Gaelic for ‘purse’). Now a decorative part of Highland dress, it was originally an everyday practical item. Made of leather or fur, it usually has more or less elaborate silver or other ornamentation, especially on the clasp or hanger. It is worn on a chain or belt around the waist, allowing the sporran to lie below the waist of the person wearing a kilt.
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Antique & Vintage Scottish Sporran Archive
For the current range of new and vintage sporrans please visit the shop department
Simple day sporrans have been made from leather and deer skin. Semi dress designs and Dress sporrans developed with a wide range of available furs. From simple sealskin which was common around the coasts of Scotland, to Eurasian otter, badger, pine marten and Scottish wildcat. Many of these species are now rightly protected species and we feel these vintage sporrans have to preserved for history. The Scottish regiments had a long history of horsehair sporrans in a wide range of designs depending on rank and regiment.
The mid Victorian to Edwardian period became the heyday of the fine goat hair dress sporran and today these are still much sort after. So sort after that we still hand craft goat hair sporrans often using vintage sporran cantles.
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