My geological mug
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LadyMud
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Purchased at the Craft Fair?
www.lancaster.ac.uk
Contemporary Craft Fair, Wednesday 11 December, 10:00am - Lancaster University
A week long Contemporary Craft Fair opens at The Ruskin on 11 December, alongside a new museum shop.
www.lancaster.ac.uk
Lankyman
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I'd forgotten about that - further evidence of cognitive decline?
Lankyman
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Quite likely, the person who bought it for me was working at the Uni at the time. It looks like a John Ruskin geology mug. I'm not someone who gets excited about houses but I did like his little corner turret at Brantwood. I could sit for hours with my Ruskin mug of tea looking out over Coniston Water to the fells.Purchased at the Craft Fair?
Contemporary Craft Fair, Wednesday 11 December, 10:00am - Lancaster University
A week long Contemporary Craft Fair opens at The Ruskin on 11 December, alongside a new museum shop.
Brantwood, Coniston © Jeff Buck
Looking towards the entrance to the house (the red door). Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brantwood
Actually stocked by the shop - from Ruskin's notebooks:
As mikem says, the mug probably shows a reproduction of one of Ruskin's geological sketches, presumably of the Karpfstock, and 1423 might be the catalogue number in the museum collection. According to https://the-ruskin.co.uk/collection/ they are developing a searchable index but it's not finished yet.
Lankyman
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Yes, I also spotted my mug. I wonder if Ruskin ever went underground? He wasn't too far away from the copper mines and the Dales weren't that far away.
The digital archive might eventually tell us (or a visit to Lancaster university)
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Object Lesson: A Cave Seen in Sunlight and A Cave Seen in Shade by John Ruskin - New Orleans Museum of Art
Sometime in the 1830s, a young John Ruskin walked into a cave with a box of paper, pencils and paint. Ruskin stationed himself near the mouth of the cave...
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Lankyman
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I know Ruskin wasn't living at Brantwood at the time but those two pictures do very much remind me of the slate mines not far awayThe digital archive might eventually tell us (or a visit to Lancaster university)
Object Lesson: A Cave Seen in Sunlight and A Cave Seen in Shade by John Ruskin - New Orleans Museum of Art
Sometime in the 1830s, a young John Ruskin walked into a cave with a box of paper, pencils and paint. Ruskin stationed himself near the mouth of the cave...
Cathedral Quarry © Ian Taylor cc-by-sa/2.0
This cavern is accessible through a short tunnel.
Cantclimbtom
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Don't overlook the obvious 
It's mug featuring Ruskin (or I suspect... more modern in the style of) geological diagram of the Glarus Alps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glarus_Alps) in Switzerland which includes Karpf, but it was historically known as Karpfstock, but you only see that form of name pre WW1 as it's contracted to Karpf (example https://alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1905_files/AJ 1905 Vol 22 375-391 AC Library.pdf)
So you have some geology and the place is labelled
Simple!
It's mug featuring Ruskin (or I suspect... more modern in the style of) geological diagram of the Glarus Alps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glarus_Alps) in Switzerland which includes Karpf, but it was historically known as Karpfstock, but you only see that form of name pre WW1 as it's contracted to Karpf (example https://alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1905_files/AJ 1905 Vol 22 375-391 AC Library.pdf)
So you have some geology and the place is labelled
Simple!
Lankyman
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Is there an Ingleborough geology mug? I'd get one.Don't overlook the obvious
It's mug featuring Ruskin (or I suspect... more modern in the style of) geological diagram of the Glarus Alps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glarus_Alps) in Switzerland which includes Karpf, but it was historically known as Karpfstock, but you only see that form of name pre WW1 as it's contracted to Karpf (example https://alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1905_files/AJ 1905 Vol 22 375-391 AC Library.pdf)
So you have some geology and the place is labelled
Simple!
Cantclimbtom
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