A FINE SPORRAN EARLY TO MID-19TH CENTURY unmarked, the large arched cantle with engraved panels of foliate scrolls and intertwined decoration, maroon leather fillet and triple ball finials, hinged opening, with white goat hair body and three black goat hair tassels, the balls suspended from belcher link chain and engraved en-suite with cantle, with maroon leather backing (Cantle 20cm wide, overall length 42cm) Footnote: Note: Family provenance and a mid-18th century handwritten note suggest this was the gift of the Marquis of Lorn to Colonel F MacKenzie Fraser