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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow many coffee mugs do you own?
. . . that were purchased in a shop with the word 'hole' in its name?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)taterguy
(29,582 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)taterguy
(29,582 posts)Ponderous,
Fucking ponderous.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)taterguy
(29,582 posts)murielm99
(30,765 posts)diner mugs. I have a few from the turn of the last century. I don't even know how many I have.
I stopped buying them because I have no place to display all of them. I put out a few dozen at a time, and rotate them.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)murielm99
(30,765 posts)They are common, because they were so indestructible. I started buying only Victor mugs that had unusual logos or coloring.
Victor mugs are heavy, with their name incised on the bottom.
I have Shenango, Sterling, Syracuse, Hall, you name it. I think the old mugs are beautiful things. But collecting can turn into hoarding, and I had to stop acquiring new ones. Also, when I began buying, they were inexpensive. Now people are beginning to buy and sell them for more money.
There is also something called Mid-Century Modern that is attracting a lot of attention from younger people. I have mugs from the fifties that have gone up in value. I just keep them around because I like them.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Not because I collect mugs, but because I like how heavy they are. When preheated, they will keep coffee hot longer than most. As you probably know, they were made from electrical insulator ceramic.
Most of the ones I have are plain although one has a Navy logo of a ship I've never heard of. I found that one at work in the back of a cabinet with dust all over it. Nobody claimed it, so it was mine. That was the first Victor mug I got and it's still my favorite, although I have one from the Black Dog at Martha's Vinyard which is quite nice.
murielm99
(30,765 posts)when I was in college. Our old dorm had the student union and a college cafeteria in it at one time. They got rid of the old china, and I acquired three mugs. They are tan Sterling mugs, from the thirties or forties. When I tried to buy more years later, I got interested in the other mugs.
I use the Sterling mugs all the time. I have used them since the sixties. I, too, like the heaviness, and the fact that they keep the coffee or tea warm for such a long time.
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)just from the dents in the linoleum ~ can you imagine what they can do to a noggin?
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)would you go see a band called: Zilch and the Big Ole Goose Egg?
taterguy
(29,582 posts)Bad things happen when I leave the house.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)met someone who told me they had a coffee enema , now thats going toooooo far .
taterguy
(29,582 posts)But totally irrelevant.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I know of none that meet your criteria, however I have a very nice one from The West Wing
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)But I don't drink coffee.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)STRESS: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some asshole who desperately deserves it.
sakabatou
(42,176 posts)DebJ
(7,699 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)And there is only one hole in a whole cup.
Brother Buzz
(36,469 posts)I just borrow them.