Starbucks Vancouver Island mug: Discovery Series
The Vancouver Island mug from Starbucks' Discovery Series sets the name in lime-green capitals over a dark green circle topped by binoculars, with bald eagles, a surfer, an orca and a diver around it. A butterfly, tall firs and a harbour fill the side.
- Series
- Discovery Series
- Place
- Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Type
- Mug
- Released
- Not confirmed
- Capacity
- 14 fl ozstandard mug size
- SKU
- Not confirmed
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What's on the mug
- 1Lettering
VANCOUVER ISLAND in lime-green capitals on two lines over a dark green circle in the middle of the front.
- 2Binoculars with birds
A pair of maroon binoculars sits on top of the circle, with a bird silhouette in each lens. Small blue, teal and purple birds fly around them.
- 3Bald eagles
Two dark blue birds with white heads and yellow beaks perch on a maroon log that slants down to the right. They look like bald eagles, though the mug doesn't say.
- 4Orca
A big dark blue and teal whale leaps from the water at the right, with white spray. It looks like an orca; the mug doesn't name it.
- 5Surfer on a wave
A person in a dark wetsuit rides a red-and-purple board down a tall teal wave with a curling white crest at the left of the front.
- 6Scuba diver
A diver with a tank, a mask and long green fins swims along below the lettering.
- 7Small boat
A tiny boat carrying a row of passengers crosses the water to the right of the lettering.
- 8Purple rock and firs
A purple rock face with fir trees on top and a pale green pool at its foot sits at the lower left.
- 9Butterfly Side view
A large teal butterfly with white-spotted wings flutters at the upper left of the side.
- 10Domed building Side view
A long, pale building with a central dome and arched entrance stands in soft green and purple, with two small red figures below it. The mug doesn't name it.
- 11Rock cliff with pool Side view
Two purple cliffs with wavy white streaks frame a pale teal pool with a tiny climber on the rock.
- 12Tall fir Side view
A very tall fir with a purple trunk and layered blue-green boughs rises at the right of centre, taller than the trees around it.
- 13Harbour with houses and boats Side view
A green headland with small houses, a white building and a few firs runs down to a dock with two boats, over pale ripples.
- 14Starbucks name Back view
STARBUCKS is printed vertically in dark capitals just beside the handle.
- 15Blurred peaks Back view
A cluster of purple and teal peaks, too blurred in the photo to describe further, sits in the upper centre.
- 16Flat teal shape Back view
A long flat teal and green shape runs under the peaks. The back photo is too out of focus to say whether it is a boat or a strip of land.
The back photo is out of focus, so the art there is only a blur of shapes. None of the photos shows the underside of the mug.
Collector notes
- The back photo is badly out of focus, so we can say only that the Starbucks name runs beside the handle and that there are peaks and a long flat shape on that side. Look for a sharper back photo before relying on it.
- Inside, the mug is a pale mint colour, visible in the front and back photos. It stands on a dark box printed in French and English, DISCOVERY SERIES and SÉRIE DECOUVÉRTE.
- The binoculars on top of the circle with a bird in each lens, the two eagles and the leaping orca are on the front, so a single front photo is enough to tell this mug from other Discovery mugs from British Columbia.
