Antique & Vintage Sporran Archive
Fine vintage sporrans from the 18th – 20th centuries. From original antique Jacobite sporrans from the 45 to high Victorian and Edwardian sporrans.
This page is an archive of past finds that can be used as a reference source. The sporrans on this page may well have been sold. Please see the website store for the current range of available sporrans.
For the current range of new and vintage sporrans please visit the shop sporran department
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.
Simple day sporrans have been made from leather and deer skin. Semi dress sporran and Dress sporrans developed with a wide range of available furs. From simple sealskin which was common around the coasts od 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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Civilian Pattern Vintage Sporrans
Vintage Regimental Pattern Scottish Sporrans
Over the decades sporran patterns developed with the history of the Scottish regiments. We have been lucky enough to source vintage and antique sporrans from all of regiments in both OR’s ( Other Ranks ) NCO, pipers and regimental officers patterns. From simple day dress leather sporrans as worn as a working sporran, to No1 dress parade sporrans, to fine officers levee dress ball sporrans.
Regimental patterns from The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Black Watch Royal Highlanders, Gordon Highlanders, Cameron Highlanders, Seaforth Highlanders, HLI, KOSB, RHF, Atholl Highlanders have all been rehomed to clients around the world.
