Starbucks Georgia mug: Discovery Series

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Starbucks Discovery Series Georgia mug with a peach, a frog, white flowers and a fish around the word GEORGIA — Front view · numbered markers match the list below Show markers

A Georgia state-symbol mug: a peach, a green treefrog, a bass, a quail-like bird, onions, pecans and tiger swallowtail butterflies, plus a cypress swamp, two waterfalls, a kayaker and a golf green.

Series: Discovery Series
Place: Georgia, USA
Type: Mug
Released: Not confirmed
Capacity: 14 fl ozStarbucks's Discovery Series launch story calls it the 14-ounce ceramic mug
SKU: Not confirmed

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The peach that had no name until a college friend visited

In 1875 a visitor named Mrs. L. E. Veal, a college friend of Mrs. Rumph's, came to Willow Lake in Georgia, and her host kept bringing out peaches. Samuel Rumph showed her one specimen after another. The last had yellow flesh and a crimson blush. "It has no name," he said. "I want you to name it." According to a University of Georgia history, she told him to honor his wife, Clara Elberta, and call it Elberta ^[1]. That same year Rumph packed some of the fruit in crates and sent it to New York with no ice at all. It arrived in good condition and sold for fifteen dollars a bushel ^[1]. He later developed a refrigerated rail car, which the Georgia Encyclopedia says let growers ship rapidly to northern markets ^[2]. Elberta stayed the state's leading peach until 1960 ^[2]. The speckled pink peach on the Georgia mug (2) may be an Elberta.

The mug does not label its drawings, so connecting this one to the story is our reading.

What's on the mug

1
GEORGIA lettering
GEORGIA in pale yellow capitals on a dark green circle in the middle of the front.
2
Peach
A round light pink fruit with a darker pink lobe, a crease down one side, white speckles and two green leaves sits at the upper left of the circle. It is a peach, Georgia's state fruit. The variety is not shown; it may be an Elberta, the variety the page's story is about.^[2]^[3]
3
Cut fruit, probably peach halves
A red-skinned fruit cut in half shows pink flesh around a dark red stone with pale markings, and a pink wedge with a red rim lies to its right. They look like a halved peach and a peach slice, matching the whole peach beside them. The mug doesn't name them.^[3]
4
Green treefrog
A bright green frog with a pale yellow stripe along its side and blue undersides to its legs leaps along the top edge. The green colour and the side stripe match the green treefrog, Georgia's state amphibian.^[3]^[4]
5
White flowers, possibly Cherokee roses
A cluster of flat white five-petalled flowers with pink-and-red centres sits on blue and dark red leaves above the red rock face at the right. They may be Cherokee roses, Georgia's state flower, which have five white petals; the real flower has yellow stamens at the centre, which the drawing does not show. The mug doesn't name them.^[3]^[7]
6
Fish that looks like a largemouth bass
A large red fish arches below the lettering, head up at the left with an open mouth, a white stripe on its belly and pale yellow-green fins. Its big jaw, which runs back past the eye, looks like a largemouth bass, Georgia's state fish, though the red colouring is stylised. The mug doesn't name it.^[3]^[5]
7
Cypress-like trees in a swamp
Trees with drooping pale yellow-green foliage and red trunks stand in a blue pond with lily pads, with pointed red stumps rising from the water around them. The flared trunks and stumps look like cypress trees and their knees in a swamp, the kind of tree that grows in south Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. The mug doesn't name the place. The same trees appear at the right edge of the side photo.^[10]
8
Bird that looks like a bobwhite quail
A plump red bird with white spots, a small crest and a very short tail perches on top of the drooping tree; the side photo shows it clearly. Its shape looks like a bobwhite quail, Georgia's state game bird, though the colours are stylised. The mug doesn't name it.^[3]^[6]
9
Red rock face with a waterfall
A tall red block with a speckled surface, vertical ridges and a dotted band along its flat top has a thin blue waterfall running down its middle into white spray and green shrubs, with the white flowers on top. A blue fan shape with dark spokes, perhaps a wheel or a rising sun, sits at its foot by the handle. We could not match it to one Georgia landmark.
10
Onions, probably Vidalia onions Side view
Two large onions hang at the upper left: a red one with yellow stripes and a white one with fine pale lines, both with root tufts and pointed tops. The pale one may be a Vidalia sweet onion, Georgia's state vegetable, which federal rules define as the hybrid yellow Granex and similar varieties; the red one does not fit a Vidalia. Nothing on the mug says Vidalia.^[3]^[8]^[13]
11
Kayaker Side view
A person in a blue cap and a bib-style vest paddles a long pink kayak with a red double paddle. The kayak's bow and the other paddle blade continue onto the back photo.
12
Waterfall over red rocks Side view
Water falls in several streams over stepped red rock ledges among green trees and runs into a blue pool. We could not match it to one named Georgia waterfall.
14
Butterfly that looks like a dark tiger swallowtail Back view
A large blue butterfly with dark red stripes across its wings and tails on its hind wings sits at the left. The stripes and tails look like a dark-form female tiger swallowtail, Georgia's state butterfly, though the blue is stylised. The mug doesn't name it.^[11]^[12]
15
Tiger swallowtail butterfly Back view
A smaller pale yellow-green butterfly with dark stripes and tailed hind wings flies above the blue one. Yellow wings with vertical black stripes are the marks of the tiger swallowtail, Georgia's state butterfly.^[11]^[12]
16
Golf green and flag Back view
A green with a red flag on a pole sits among rolling fairways and dark green trees under blue sky and clouds, with small white birds in the sky. The mug doesn't name a course.
17
Pecans Back view
A pile of dark red-brown ovals with wavy ridges lies below the pink kayak's bow; more of them show at the lower left of the side photo. They look like pecan halves; Georgia became the country's leading pecan producer by the 1950s. The mug doesn't name them.^[3]^[9]
18
Small flying birds
A few small pink bird shapes fly to the right of the fish, below the lettering.
19
STARBUCKS wordmark Back view
STARBUCKS in small black capitals runs vertically beside the handle.

Together the three photos show most of the outside of the mug; the strip directly opposite the handle may be only partly visible.

Collector notes

The design leans on red and green: the red fish, the red rock face at the right and the red bird at the left all share one red, set against the dark green circle behind the lettering.
The swamp pond, the drooping cypress-like trees and the red bird sit at the far left and the white flowers and the red rock face at the right, so a one-sided seller photo misses half of the scene.

Before you buy

The Been There series also carries Georgia, so check the series name on the base before buying. The photos show most of the outside of this mug, but the strip opposite the handle may be only partly visible.