Comments on: Starbucks schwag: It’s so cool. (or possibly dorky but I’m okay with that) (OPEN thread)

By: Melody

Melody — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:16:18 +0000

Hello Rita! Looks like you’ve found one of my oldest threads! I started this blog 9/9/09. I generally say that the value of an item is what people will pay for it. Ebay is a good way to gauge that. However, anything with the 1987 to 1992 era logo (like this orange mug) is probably worth a little more than many other Starbucks items. As I recall, I bought the orange mug for about $30 in 2009. Browsing through ebay, it looks like there might be a few mugs with the 87 to 92 logo on them. One is $95. One is $8 right now. One has a buy it now price of $17.99. I think the Cordon Blue stamp on the bottom of the mug makes it slightly more valuable – Here’s one with a buy it now price of $27.99

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Starbucks-Mug-Old-Logo-Navel-Cordon-Bleu-/130540732099?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e64d57ec3

Good luck and have fun on ebay!

By: rita evans

rita evans — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:23:43 +0000

Hi! Any idea of how much the “Ugly orange mug” is worth??? And also is it considered quite rare? Your posting about it is the first one I’ve found. I would appreciate any info you could give me on it and any other ways to research it’s value. Thanks in advance!

By: Larry Aldrich

Larry Aldrich — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:31:17 +0000

You forgot to mention collecting Howard’s autograph! : ]

By: m

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:54:31 +0000

The box is on the coffeegear site, both alone (like $15 or so maybe?) and as part of a “boxed” set with a shirt and tons of other stuff for like $30

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:14:02 +0000

I collect old Starbucks cards either given to me by customers who are throwing them out or ones that i put five bucks on and then use. I put business card magnets on the back of them, and put them on my fridge. I have the Ray Charles, Paul McCartney, and cards from as far back as 2003. I also collect Barista Bears.

By: Sabine

Sabine — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:30:28 +0000

Hey!

Addicted greetings from Germany

I’m a hopeless, lost and eternal Starbucks lover!

My vice are city mugs; I have collected more than 80 so far, and I’m working on getting more. In my apartment special shelves for them are kinda dominating

If somebody wants a mug from Nuremberg and/or Germany … I would love to exchange to enlarge my collection

By: LatteRose

LatteRose — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:35:42 +0000

I love collecting the mugs! And the occasional tumbler. Wish there was some kind of “Starbucks Guide to Mugs” out there.

By: CD

CD — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:42:57 +0000

Hey Melody – Great website and great post.

I love that lunch box – probably even more so now that the new coffee bags no longer contain the stickers…call me sentimental, but the stickers always were a part of the Starbucks Experience for me.

Hope all is well.

By: Kelly Lawson

Kelly Lawson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:17:39 +0000

Love this schwag! And I have to say, the photos are great! Kudos to Larry of Seattle Custom Framing.

I’ve always liked the original Starbucks siren and I found out recently while researching sirens that the first sirens from Greek mythology (Homer’s Odyssey) were not in fact mermaid-like creatures, but ladies with bird bodies like harpys. I think the mermaid ones (which seem to have showed up later in post-classical mythology) are prettier!