Drinking-cup which belonged to Alexander Selkirk of Largo, Fife

Carved calabash drinking cup, fitted to a wooden handle: West Africa, Nigeria, South Eastern State, Calabar, Ibibio people

Drinking cup of polished coconut shell, with web handle of woven coir: Pacific Peoples, Fiji

Drinking cup of brown wood, barrel form, carved with linear ornament: Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kasai District

Rhyton or drinking cup of black basalt ware with silver-mounted rim, in the form of a fox's head: English, Staffordshire, by Wedgwood, late 18th century

Drinking cup of light blue-green blown glass, modiolus type with vertical three-ribbed loop handle: Ancient Mediterranean, possibly made in Asia Minor, Roman Period, Early Imperial, late 1st to early 2nd century AD

Drinking cup of pale green blown glass with yellow tinge, 'carchesium' type decorated with six bands of wheel-cut lines on body: Ancient Mediterranean, found in Cyprus, Roman Period, early Imperial, mid 1st to early 2nd century AD