Vintage FELTMAN LANGER EAGLE COFFEE NO-SPILL PORCELAIN TRAVEL MUG - 1986+

Before the untippable Mighty Mug, before KeepCups allowed us to color coordinate our drinkware with our streetwear, and long before Ember 2 warmed our coffees using Bluetooth via our mobile devices, there was the Feltman-Langer. We are referring, of course, to the “No-Spill Mug,” also sometimes called a “wide-based travel mug,” a widespread totem of on-the-go coffee drinking lifestyle circa 1980. Your long haul truckers, your yacht club swingers, your workin’ folks getting by on a living wage and a social contract: they all shared together in the promise of a mug that wouldn’t spill. Several brands offered these products, though the Feltman-Langer Company of California (now AMERICAWARE) pioneered the form with its original “MOTOR MUG” and “Bearly Surviving” line. These were the mugs our parents and grandparents clutched in untroubled, nicotine-stained hands, sipping their way through a cream and two sugars across the arc of history.