Starbucks Pittsburgh mug: Discovery Series
The Pittsburgh mug from Starbucks' Discovery Series sets the city name in red over a dark green circle, with a tipped bottle pouring red sauce, a bingo card, a skyline and a bridge. A penguin, a sandwich, a church and a vintage car run round the side, and a kayaker on the back.
- Series
- Discovery Series
- Place
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Type
- Mug
- Released
- Not confirmed
- Capacity
- 14 fl ozstandard mug size
- SKU
- Not confirmed
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What's on the mug
- 1Lettering
PITTSBURGH in red capitals across a dark green circle in the middle of the front.
- 2Tipped sauce bottle
A bottle with an orange-red body and a pale label is tipped upside down above the lettering, pouring a stream of red sauce onto the green circle. It looks like a ketchup bottle, though the mug doesn't label it.
- 3Bingo card
A tilted yellow card with the letters BINGO across the top and a grid of numbers leans against the left of the lettering, with red, yellow and green dots falling beside it.
- 4Skyline
A row of tall buildings with lit windows in orange, yellow and blue stands along the foot of the green circle, with a road and a yellow bank in front. The mug doesn't name any of them.
- 5Wooded island with bridge
At the upper right a wooded green island sits in a river with a long low bridge running across the top. The mug doesn't name it.
- 6Orange bridge towers
Orange lattice towers with yellow cables rise beside a small red-roofed house on a green hillside at the right of the lettering, next to the handle.
- 7Twin-spired church Side view
A teal church with two tall, pointed yellow towers and arched windows stands at the upper left of the side, above the sandwich.
- 8Stacked sandwich Side view
A bun piled with red meat and pale strips that look like fries sits in the middle of the side. The mug doesn't label it.
- 9Penguin with a bowl Side view
A penguin in blue-grey stands upright on a stone arch and balances a red bowl of white dip with two yellow chips on its head.
- 10Tunnel entrance Side view
A yellow stone portal with two round-topped tunnel mouths sits under the penguin, with a road curving out of it and a lamp post beside it.
- 11Red vintage car Side view
An open red car in an early style, with a driver and a passenger in dark hats, drives along below the church.
- 12Pavilion with striped columns Side view
A building with a flat roof and teal and yellow striped columns sits at the left of the side, above a dotted blue-green hillside.
- 13Bingo card (side) Side view
The bingo card seen from the other side: a yellow grid with the letters BINGO and numbers, next to the red edge of the sauce bottle.
- 14Kayaker Back view
A person in an orange life vest and a yellow hat paddles a long, red-and-green kayak across pale blue water.
- 15Round disc with an oar Back view
A yellow-rimmed circle speckled with white, red and brown bits sits behind the kayaker, with a red-orange oar crossing it. The mug doesn't say what it is.
- 16Awnings and chairs Back view
Small people sit on folding chairs and at tables under red and yellow awnings at the right of the back.
- 17Starbucks wordmark Back view
STARBUCKS is printed vertically in small dark capitals on the white side of the mug beside the handle.
The three photos cover most of the outside of the mug, but not all of it: the strip beside the handle is out of view and each photo cuts off a little of the drawing at its edges. The bottom of the mug is not shown.
Collector notes
- The inside of this mug is yellow, which shows in all three photos. The black box printed DISCOVERY SERIES, the globe and the window blinds behind it are part of the seller's photo, not the mug.
- The bottle, bingo card, skyline and bridges are on the front. The penguin with a bowl on its head, the stacked sandwich, the twin-spired church and the red vintage car are on the side, and the kayaker is on the back, so a listing photographed only from the front will show none of them.
- The bingo card wraps round the join between the front and the side, so some photos show it on the left of the lettering and others on the right. Check the series name in a listing, because Pittsburgh also has mugs in other Starbucks series.
