Among the stuff my grandmother handed down to me when I was a teenager, that belonged to my grandfather was this set of a Schnaps-bottle and shot-glasses. It was apparently part of his student fraternity paraphernalia as the little skulls rest on books on which's spine the slogan "Gaudeamus Igitur" is inscribed, the title of a song in ancient Latin that used to be (is?) popular among the members of student fraternities.
(I remember the first line from my Latin-lessons in school:
Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenestum sumus -
Let's enjoy ourselves as long as we are young!)
When I moved out of my parent's home 1990 I left it there (unlike this
tobacco-jar), which I'm rather glad about - I'm sure every piece would have been broken twice by now.
A low-tech and aesthetically pleasing solution for the slow-drinking Martini-lover's chilling problem comes in form of SwankMartini's Chillin' glasses.
The front side of this vintage bamboo tablet used to show an exotic (Chinese) landscape with houses and there was a block of Chinese characters which in my infant imagination more than 30 years ago used to form the shape of an English doubledecker-bus.
Cross-breeding Tiki and Science (Fiction) culture - does that ring any bell?
