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Scottish Clan Crest Decanter, Apothecary Style - Personalised Family Crest & Motto

Scottish Clan Crest Decanter, Apothecary Style - Personalised Family Crest & Motto

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Make It Personal

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The Story Behind the Design

Our Clan Crest Engraved Decanter is a true heirloom-in-the-making, a glass vessel of both elegance and ancestry. Hand-engraved with your selected clan crest and motto, each design is encircled with a ring of thistles, the national flower of Scotland, exclusive to this piece.

Whether it holds a favourite whisky or stands as a centrepiece on the sideboard, this decanter is a powerful tribute to family identity.

Crafted in Scotland and engraved by hand using the time-honoured art of sandcarving, this piece offers weight, clarity, and permanence, an ideal gift for weddings, milestone birthdays, or clan reunions.

What Makes It Special

  • Hand-engraved with your clan crest and family motto
  • Unique to our decanters: surrounding thistle border
  • Optional: email your own crest for custom artwork
  • Permanent deep engraving using traditional sandcarving
  • Crafted and engraved in Scotland
  • Presented in a luxury gift box, tissue-wrapped
  • Ideal as a matching set with glasses for gifting or display

Perfect For

  • Milestone birthdays, retirements, and anniversaries
  • Weddings, best man, or father-of-the-bride gifts
  • Clan reunions or heritage celebrations
  • A meaningful centrepiece for the family home
  • Whisky lovers with a proud Scottish lineage

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What Makes It Special

  • Your crest redrawn by hand for engraving clarity.
  • Every symbol, motto or banner preserved with fine-line accuracy.
  • Traditional sandblasting gives a soft, tactile depth to the design.
  • Sized and composed carefully for the specific glass profile.
  • A meaningful piece rooted in heritage, identity and family history.

If your crest contains unusually fine detail, we may suggest adjustments to ensure the engraving remains legible and true to its original form.

About Your Glass

Cylindrical apothecary bottle with cork bartop closure

Best for: Decanting whisky, gin, or other spirits with a vintage-inspired touch

  • Height: 174 mm
  • Diameter: 94 mm
  • Capacity: 700 ml

This vintage-inspired apothecary bottle combines old-world charm with practical versatility, making it ideal for spirits, infused oils, bath salts, or decorative display.

Perfect For

  • Clan gatherings, anniversaries and family celebrations.
  • Regimental or institutional milestones.
  • Meaningful gifts that honour roots and identity.
  • Display pieces for home, lodge, club or office.

Engraving & Personalisation

Maximum characters: 12

Complimentary engraving includes up to 12 characters placed on the same side as the design. We always aim for a layout that balances beautifully and suits the shape of the glass, but final positioning is at the discretion of the studio.

If you'd like to go beyond the complimentary allowance, additional characters are charged at 30p each. Contact Us for more details.

Before engraving begins, you’ll receive an email with a digital proof of your layout. Please check all spelling, dates, names, punctuation, and design placement carefully.

As each piece is engraved to your specification, personalised orders cannot be returned once artwork has been approved.


  • Complete The Moment

    Add contrast and character with a different glass style, thoughtfully chosen to complete the occasion.

    Add a Thoughtful Twist 
  • Glass decanter and tumbler with MacGregor clan crest on a dark background

    The Perfect Pairing

    Some gifts are simply meant to be together. Pair your chosen glass with its perfect partner for a truly memorable set.

    Pair Them Together 
  • Bring It All Together

    Unify your gift with a glass that balances the collection — ideal for couples, companions, or carefully curated sets.

    Complete the Gift 
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Beautifully Presented, Thoughtfully Chosen

Your glass arrives wrapped in crisp white tissue inside our signature blue box — elegant, understated, and ready to gift.

Signature Gift Box

Signature Gift Box

Our signature blue gift box, included as standard on all drinking glasses, adds an elegant finishing touch, ready to impress straight out of the box.

Satin Lined Presentation Box

Satin Lined Presentation Box

For an extra-special touch, upgrade to our satin-lined presentation box, perfect for milestone occasions and meaningful moments.

Gift Wrapping Service

Gift Wrapping Service

Make gifting effortless with our bespoke gift wrapping service, beautifully finished and ready to delight.


Crests

Symbols of heritage, belonging and honour.

Across Scotland and beyond, crests have long served as markers of identity. Whether a clan badge, a heraldic shield or an emblem tied to professional or service life, each one carries history, meaning and pride. Our engraving process preserves those details with clarity while honouring the traditions behind them.

Crests
Crests

Crests are more than decorative motifs. They are shorthand for ancestry, allegiance and the communities we belong to. Every scroll, motto and line carries centuries of symbolism, often shaped by landscape, lineage or the stories of those who came before us.

To prepare each piece for engraving, we begin by redrawing the crest as precise vector artwork. This ensures every element, from the tiniest thistle tuft to the curve of a banner ribbon, remains crisp once reduced to glass scale.

Sandblasting then brings the design to life with a velvety, tactile finish. The result is a piece that feels both historic and contemporary: a modern keepsake grounded in heritage, made to be passed on and to hold meaning for years to come.


Traditional Sandblast Engraving

For over four decades, every glass that leaves our studio has been engraved using a time-honoured sandblasting technique, a craft rooted in precision, patience, and the belief that meaningful gifts deserve more than a quick machine-made mark. Unlike surface printing or shallow laser etching, sandblast engraving cuts softly into the glass to create a deep, permanent finish with a beautifully tactile feel. It’s the reason our designs look crisp from every angle and remain flawless for a lifetime.

  1. Artwork Refined With Care

    Your chosen design or personalisation is transformed into precise vector artwork, a format that captures every fine line, curve, and serif. This allows us to prepare an engraving layout that balances perfectly on the shape of the glass. Whether it’s a portrait, a crest, or a message, every element is positioned by hand to ensure it sits naturally within the piece.

  2. Creating the Single-Use Stencil

    The artwork is then transferred onto a specialist stencil using UV exposure. Each stencil is created for one single engraving only, never reused, which means the edges remain sharp and the details stay crisp. The stencil is carefully hand-applied and burnished onto the glass to protect every area that should remain clear.

  3. Hand-Engraved Using Fine Aluminium Oxide

    The glass is taken into the blasting cabinet, where a controlled stream of fine aluminium oxide gently cuts into the exposed areas of the surface. This stage is done entirely by hand, allowing us to deepen lines, soften shading, and shape textures in a way machines simply cannot replicate. Each piece takes time — but the result is unmistakable: a smooth satin finish with real depth and character.

  4. Finishing, Polishing & Inspection

    Once engraved, the stencil is removed and the glass is thoroughly cleaned and polished to reveal the final detail. Every piece is then checked for balance, clarity, depth and alignment. Only when it meets our studio’s standards is it gift-boxed and ready to become part of someone’s story.

Sandblast engraving has been at the heart of our work since 1982. It remains the most beautiful and enduring method of personalising glass, a blend of heritage craft and modern precision. From small keepsakes to intricate commissions, every piece is made by hand, one at a time, from our studio in Fife.

Traditional Sandblast Engraving

Part of the Highland Heritage collection

Please note: Some photos include whisky bottles or styling props for context. These are not included unless explicitly stated. Your purchase is for the engraved glassware only.