Macdonald Sporrans

After recent controversy in the news stemming from the age old rivalry between the Scottish and the English, we wanted to show that there was no hard feelings.

St. Georges Day is coming up fast and we wanted to help our neighbours celebrate their patron saint’s day in style, and we thought what better way to do this than with a sale!

So for the coming month leading up to the 23rd of April we have a 10% sale on all English themed items at buyahipflask.com.

We have various English themed flask such as our 6oz England 3 Lion Pewter Hip Flask and most fittingly, our 6oz George and the Dragon Pewter Hip Flask. These hip flasks are finely made from high quality lead free pewter and come with a screw top, although captive tops are available as an optional choice. Both flask come complete with a mini funnel and in a fantastic presentation box, making them perfect gifts to commemorate England’s national day so customers should move quickly to have the items in time.

Now, if you are like us Scots you may not be too familiar about the history of St. George. So us being the helpful lot we are, we decided to give you some information on the patron saint of England.

Saint George was, according to tradition, a Roman soldier and priest in the Guard of Diocletian, who is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, and the Eastern Catholic Churches. He is immortalized in the tale of Saint George and the Dragon and is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. His memorial is celebrated on 23 April, and he is regarded as one of the most prominent military saints.

We hope all our English customers enjoy their national day just as much as we enjoy ours.

We are very happy to announce that we can now provide a stock Clan Crest engraving for any of the engraveable items across our websites.

A Scottish crest badge, commonly called a clan crest, is a heraldic badge which was worn to show one’s allegiance to an individual or one’s membership to a specific Scottish clan. Crest badges are commonly referred to as “clan crests”, and are normally worn by members of Scottish clans. You can see a sample of the Macdonald crest below:

Obviously, as there is a strong Highland connection with clan crests and kiltwear then it was a natural progression for us to supply this kind of service. We have been working closely with the various suppliers and engravers that we are partnered with and as a result you can now choose from a large selection of designs to further customise your hip flask or tankard.

We have a range of hip flasks and tankards that are perfect for this kind of customisation. Our plain hip flasks are tailor made for engraving choices; whether that be text engraving, logo engraving or obviously clan crest engravings. Our flasks and tankards are provided by some of the UK’s top pewter makers and they use top of the range engraving equipment to complete any engraving requests.

For the very low price of £5.64 you can have any of our available clan crest engraved onto any product and we are more than happy to provide a digital copy to you of how the image looks. Please see our Engraving Information section for further information and also to see an example of the MacDonald clan crest (obvious choice).

So if you would like to show your clan allegiance then what better way than to have your family crest added to any of our metal products. We can now supply over 140 Scottish based crests from Anderson to Young and all the way in between; so if your family has a crest then it’s a good bet we have it!

We’ve just launched some great new hip flask designs. Many of these fit into our new category of contemporary hip flasks.

We have some great Q-Bic designs which feature a sateen finish and square corners and come with a variety of enamel finish caps. We also have some special shaped flasks such as the grip shaped hip flask and the stirrup shaped hip flask which we’re sure will be popular.

We’ve also created a category for plain hip flasks which is full of flasks with no patterns so that you can have them engraved with logos or text, or if you just like a plain flask.

Our brand new store is dedicated to hip flasks.

We’ve got a huge range of hip flasks on there including: Celtic hip flasks, country hip flasks, English hip flasks, golf hip flasks, Irish hip flasks, Leather bound hip flasks, Masonic hip flasks, Mackintosh hip flasks, Scottish hip flasks, Scrimshaw hip flasks, Wedding hip flasks and welsh hip flasks.

Wow…with all those flasks, we’re sure that you can find a great gift for someone, or a special present for yourself.

Hip flasks are a great way of taking your favourite nip out with you – whether it’s a 15 year old whisky off up a Munro in Scotland, or a triple distilled vodka to the outer reaches of Siberia!

And for those of you that want to take extra special care of your new hip flask, we’ve got some great information pages including: cleaning pewter, pewter care and pewter safety.