After all, I couldn't remember the name of the bone of the "Stan skull" introduced in Treasure House Vol. 43 a year ago, and it's still stored in a box these days. This autumn, it might be more appropriate for me to just relax with some B-grade dinosaur movies, as academic pursuits were probably too much for me in the first place. Well, this time, starting with such a pathetic intro, we're not talking about B-grade movies, but rather dinosaur-themed alcoholic beverages and drinking vessels to enjoy while relaxing. I'm afraid I don't have the discernment to appreciate the taste of alcohol, and most of these are just empty bottles I received, so I can't really describe their taste.

My proudest possession is the "Sinosauropteryx Liquor" in Photo 1.
I also introduced it in Treasure House Vol. 2, but I'll do so again. It's a memorable item from my Liaoning Province dinosaur tour, where there were only three of them and my tour mates and I scrambled to get one! The Sinosauropteryx is a relief, and it has an unusually good design for pure Chinese dinosaur merchandise (including everything from stationery to display skeletal replicas). It also matches the material of the vessel very well and is excellent for display. It comes in a box that looks very Chinese (Photo 2). I shared the contents with my dinosaur club friends as a souvenir, but it was a type of Chinese white liquor (baijiu), and the taste was not well-received.

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Once upon a time, in that legendary dinosaur magazine "Dinosaur Science Frontline," there was a playful "fictional advertisement" page that featured a bottle of Wild Tyranno, instead of Wild Turkey. However, liquor bottles with dinosaur labels actually exist and are not fictional creations. The T-REX beer in Photo 3 was a gift, so I don't know its origin, but the wine is a special product from "Spazaurus," an Italian restaurant in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo.

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Photo 4 is labeled as a mug, but it's about the same size as a small beer mug, so I imagine how delicious a beer would taste if I chilled it super cold in this (though I wouldn't dare use it for that, it's too precious). This item was sold at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in 2001 during the "Dinosaurs of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology" exhibition and is merchandise from the Tyrrell Museum. A dinosaur enthusiast friend in Fukui bought and sent it to me, and amazingly, it's a replica! On the right is a caudal vertebra of an Albertosaurus from the Tyrrell Museum collection, and on the left is a caudal vertebra of "Scotty" the Tyrannosaurus from the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. The person who came up with this idea is truly brilliant! They probably had a flash of inspiration when they happened to place a vertebra vertically. Photo 5 is a shot glass with the Tyrrell Museum logo, also from the same museum.

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Photo 6 is an Italian liqueur I got on Yahoo Auctions. I'm looking for other varieties, as there seem to be several, although I'm not a big fan of its face. Photo 7 is a Nessie mini bottle, which is relatively common. Naturally, it's Scotch whisky.

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Photo 8 shows two sets of sake bottles (tokkuri) and cups (ochoko) that capitalized on the dinosaur boom of the early 1990s. Compared to the vertebra-shaped mug, I wish they had a bit more ingenuity.

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As a bonus, please enjoy some soft drinks (Photo 9).
The mineral water on the left is from Toyama, and the one on the right was purchased at the Natural History Museum in London. The tea in the middle, with an Iguanodon depicted on it, is from Shirakawa-go, Gifu, and is something I forgot to introduce in my souvenir travelogue. It says it was produced in 1992, but the contents are still intact.