Earthenware soup plate for export to south-east Asia with 'Burung Kupu' pattern in red and green showing two birds and a butterfly, impressed mark and printed mark on the base, by J. and M.P. Bell and Co. Ltd of Glasgow, c. 1887

Earthenware soup plate for export to south-east Asia with 'Tarlalu Bagus' pattern in green showing a pagoda and two birds above a bridge, impressed mark and printed mark on the base, by J. and M.P. Bell and Co. Ltd of Glasgow, c. 1888

Earthenware soup plate for export to south-east Asia with blue transfer printed pattern 'Sumatra' depicting a stork standing by a river, impressed bell mark and printed stamp on the base, by J. and M.P. Bell and Co. Ltd,Glasgow c. 1850 - 1900

Pottery accessory cup, from Lanarkshire, Early Bronze Age

Pottery accessory cup, from an unknown location, Early Bronze Age

Vessel of Beaker pottery, from a cist at Dairsie, Fife, Early Bronze Age, 2400 - 1800 BC

Sample of porcelain clay, from a collection of raw and manufactured products acquired at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, London in 1851: China, Jingdezhen

One of a group of specimens of electric telegraph apparatus - a stoneware telegraph insulator with a wooden arm

One of a series of specimens illustrating the manufacture of crucibles, assaying furnaces etc. - from fire clay - a set of scorifiers used in the assaying of silver

Cassiterite - grey aggregated crystals - a sample of tin ore containing 73% metallic tin - from the Rooiberg Tin Mine, Waterberg District, Transvaal, South Africa -

Domestic water closet of the Hellyer Optimus type

Block mould in plaster of Paris of an oval sweetmeat dish moulded with wickerwork pattern and leafage on rim, Prestonpans, 19th century

Dinner plate made for export by J. and M.P. Bell, Glasgow, or by Petrus Regout, Maastricht, in printed and hand painted pattern "Tamerlane / Timor": collected Djakarta, Java, Indonesia, 1991

Cobaltite - steel grey prismatic crystals - associated with chalcopyrite - on rock matrix - from Tunaberg near Nykoping, Sweden

Copper - native - a mass of small orangish-brown enmeshed crystals - some long - associated with a small amount of matrix - from Ray mine, Ray, Gila County, Arizona, USA

Finger ring in bright blue glazed faience with an oval bezel impressed with glyphs in relief giving the prenomen of Amenhotep III: Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty