NAM.1986-03-6-1

Sporran with strap, officers’, full dress, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs Duke of Albanys), 1898, standard pattern, 1898. Red Morocco leather. Edge of pouch and flap bound with brown leather. Above the flap, two vertical loops of similar leather. Twisted yellow silk round-cord draw-string. White goat hair. Ten gold bullions over five tassels of crimson wire, two circular bands of gold bullion above. Tassels set in two rows of three. Gold metal thread net and crimson silk tassel boss in two ball shapes, the smaller above the other. Gold metal thread and crimson silk plaited tassel cord, with the cords of the lower row of tassels attach to the centre lower edge of each upper tassel. Gilt metal and silver cantle, with die struck, mounted and incised design of a silver scroll at upper edge, above which a similar scroll. In centre two silver thistle sprays at base of which is a hatched scroll. At the upper edge of each spray a silver hatched scroll each bearing two of the remaining battle honours. Between the sprays is a silver stag’s head. The whole is upon a gilt metal ground upon each lower corner of which is an incised thistle flower. Buff leather sporran strap, with at one end a gilt single prong buckle and two leather sliders, with at other end ten eyelets.