Gentleman's club glass to fetch £15K

A rudely-illustrated drinking glass from one of Scotland’s earliest and most influential private gentlemen’s clubs was expected to fetch up to £15,000 at auction today.

The item, dated circa 1770, is from the Edinburgh branch of the Beggar’s Benison club, established three decades after the first ‘‘Benison’’, was set up in 1732 by around 30 merchants, craftsmen and small lairds in Anstruther, Fife.