Starbucks Utah mug: Discovery Series

What's on the mug

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   UTAH lettering

   UTAH in pale blue-white capitals over a dark green circle that sits behind most of the scene.

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   Beehive (Utah's state emblem)

   A golden-yellow, domed hive made of horizontal bands with a dark maroon entrance hangs from a brown branch with pale blue leaves. A hive of this kind is Utah's state emblem and the reason the state is called the Beehive State. The mug doesn't name it.^[1]

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   Cherries (Utah's state fruit)

   Two round cherries hang from a blue stem with dark purple-and-white leaves above the lettering: the left one is yellow-gold, the right one orange-red. Cherries are a major Utah fruit crop and the state fruit. The mug doesn't name them.^[2]

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   Skier

   A skier in an orange jacket, a yellow helmet, goggles, blue trousers and yellow boots crouches on long skis, poles out, above the lettering. The scene may refer to Utah's skiing and its snow slogan, but the mug carries no resort name or slogan, so no particular slope is identified.^[5]

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   Red and gold rock formations

   A tall golden cliff with wavy, mostly horizontal orange marks stands at the left, with layered yellow and orange hills in the middle and a red-orange slope ending in a pointed spire at the right, all below the green disc. They are stylised canyon-country rock; the drawing has no feature that singles out one park or formation, so none is named.

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   Rocky Mountain elk (Utah's state animal)

   A dark purple-brown elk with dark purple legs and tall branching tan antlers stands in grass at the right edge of the scene, beside the handle. Utah's state animal is the Rocky Mountain elk. The mug doesn't name it.^[3]

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   Golden tree

   A tall, narrow, pointed tree with feathery yellow foliage marked in orange stands on a thin blue trunk below the skier. Its crown is cone-shaped, so it does not read as a round-crowned aspen, and the drawing doesn't say what tree it is.

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   Lake with yellow and grey-blue trees

   A deep blue patch at the foot of the golden cliff holds small round trees in yellow, orange and pale grey-blue, with white grass tufts between them. It is drawn like a lake or flooded woodland; no place is shown.

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   Sego lily

   Two tall pale blue flowers share one blue stem at the left edge: three broad petals streaked with white, a yellow base and dark stamens. This matches the sego lily, Utah's state flower, whose petals are white tinged with lilac with a purplish band above a yellow base (the mug draws them blue). The mug doesn't name it.^[4]

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    Jar of honey with dipper

    An open clear jar of golden honey stands beside the hive, and an orange honey dipper above it drips a strand of honey into the jar.

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    Honeybees

    Small black-and-yellow striped bees with pale blue wings fly around the hive: one above the branch, one beside the large flower at the left, and a tiny one on the hive. The honeybee is Utah's state insect; Deseret, the word for honeybee in the Book of Mormon, is the source of the state's beehive emblem. The mug doesn't name them.^[6]

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    Snowy pines

    Three tall pale blue pines dusted with white stand behind the skier, with pale dots drifting around the skier like falling snow.

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    Silver stream

    A pale grey-blue ribbon of water curls out from the lake along the bottom of the red slope, with white swirl lines.

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    Partly visible red object with lettering

    At the very left edge of this photo, below the lower flower, a small orange-red shape with a dark window and a few partly cut-off red letters is visible. It continues around the side of the mug that this photo does not show, so it cannot be identified.

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    Pale blue shape at the left edge

    Between the two flower heads at the left edge, a narrow pale blue form with a small teal dot is cut off by the curve of the mug. It belongs to the part of the wrap that no photo shows, so it is not identified.

Only the front is photographed. The side opposite the handle and the area behind the handle are in no photo, and two partly visible items at the left edge continue there.

Collector notes

• The beehive and honey jar at the upper left sit well apart from the skier at the right, so a close-up crop may lose one of them.
• The elk stands beside the handle, so it is easy to miss in a photo taken from the left.
• Only the front is photographed; the side opposite the handle is in no photo, and two partly visible items at the left edge continue there.

Other Utah mugs

Different series, different mugs. Check the series name before you buy.

About the Discovery Series

• Discovery Series vs Been There Series: the differences
• How to display and store a Starbucks mug collection
• Where the hidden cup is on each Discovery Series mug
• Starbucks Discovery Series mugs list