Seller says he got it from an NBC prop guy in 1991.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220095640875
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220095640875
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Carson's "Tonight Show" coffee mug on e-bay
- Thread starter CrankyYankee
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...then why was it still on Carson's show desk during his final weeks in '92?...
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MaiTKwinn
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Everyone on Johnny's staff had availability to those coffee mugs. They were also
given to certain guests and special visitors, but not the general audience or public.
I have one in my collection that was given to me by a friend, Kevin Mulholland, who
was one of Johnny's writers, back in 1984 when I watched the taping of the show
at NBC in Burbank, while standing right behind then-producer Fred DeCordova.
I got to meet Johnny afterwards, along with Ed McMahon, Doc Severinsen, Tommy
Newsome, and the rest of the Tonight Show band. Newsome & the boys in the band
even invited me out for a little libation after the taping. Great memories....
given to certain guests and special visitors, but not the general audience or public.
I have one in my collection that was given to me by a friend, Kevin Mulholland, who
was one of Johnny's writers, back in 1984 when I watched the taping of the show
at NBC in Burbank, while standing right behind then-producer Fred DeCordova.
I got to meet Johnny afterwards, along with Ed McMahon, Doc Severinsen, Tommy
Newsome, and the rest of the Tonight Show band. Newsome & the boys in the band
even invited me out for a little libation after the taping. Great memories....
Here are a few examples of the Carson "Tonight Show" coffee mugs.
These are in an auction of items from Bonhams.
"Carson" mug #1
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publ...ailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3489557&iSaleNo=15284
"Carson" mug #2
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publ...ailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3489560&iSaleNo=15284
Guest hosts Don Rickles & Sammy Davis Jr. mugs
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publ...ailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3489559&iSaleNo=15284
These are in an auction of items from Bonhams.
"Carson" mug #1
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publ...ailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3489557&iSaleNo=15284
"Carson" mug #2
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publ...ailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3489560&iSaleNo=15284
Guest hosts Don Rickles & Sammy Davis Jr. mugs
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publ...ailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3489559&iSaleNo=15284
The following footnote was also on the auction site...I post it here for informational purposes in case the link ceases to work after the auction is over.
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Footnote:
Throughout the run of "The Tonight Show," Carson had hundreds of these coffee mugs made as they would "disappear" from his desk on a nightly basis. Guests so frequently took his coffee cups home as a souvenir, that he started having extras made to give to them (though it still didn't stop people from stealing Johnny's). These cups were made at the Mug Shop in Burbank, California (down the street from where the show was taped every night) and the owner of that shop was none other than the mayor of Burbank at the time, Robert Olney. The cup in this lot was consigned by the mayor's grandson and according to him, it was an "un-issued original" meaning it was made for "The Tonight Show" but this particular mug never went to NBC Studios (though hundreds of identical ones did).
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Footnote:
Throughout the run of "The Tonight Show," Carson had hundreds of these coffee mugs made as they would "disappear" from his desk on a nightly basis. Guests so frequently took his coffee cups home as a souvenir, that he started having extras made to give to them (though it still didn't stop people from stealing Johnny's). These cups were made at the Mug Shop in Burbank, California (down the street from where the show was taped every night) and the owner of that shop was none other than the mayor of Burbank at the time, Robert Olney. The cup in this lot was consigned by the mayor's grandson and according to him, it was an "un-issued original" meaning it was made for "The Tonight Show" but this particular mug never went to NBC Studios (though hundreds of identical ones did).
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