WW2 SCOTTISH FIVE TASSEL SPORRAN, BLACK WATCH REGIMENT.
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A Scottish military sporran with five tassels is a traditional Highland regimental pouch featuring a white or colored horsehair body and five hanging decorative tassels.
Historical Significance
- Regimental Identity: In British military history, specific Scottish regiments used variations in sporran hair color and tassel counts (such as five or six tassels) to distinguish their uniforms.
- The Black Watch: Historically wore white-hair sporrans featuring five or six black tassels
Good example of a WW2 Scottish sporran as issued to the Black Watch. Five white horse hair tassels upon a Back horse hair background. Brass fittings. Glasgow stamped makers name to the back with an issue date of 1939.