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I have a mug which was a present from a university gift shop (Lancaster Ruskin Museum). Around it is what looks to me like a geological cross section and the text '1,423 Karpfstock'. I thought it sounds like a mountain in Bavaria or similar but can't find it!

Google is being weird with this one (w.r.t. whether the "stock" ending is applied) but it does seem to be an area of the Swiss Alps

https://www.periodpaper.com/products/1922-print-antique-hydroplane-swiss-al...

It’s in the north Swiss alps and is the first entry that comes up in google

It's similar to an Oxo cube, only it's made out of goldfish.

This sounds completely plausible. My tea tastes better already!

Strange. I usually use Bing as the standard search engine on my phone and laptop and couldn't get anything.

Thanks. I wondered if there is a specific peak of 1,423m height?

There is a Karpf (with an umlaut over the a) off the Klausenpass in Glarus, Switzerland. It is 2794 m and I twice tried to climb it and twice failed, but twice had a pleasant evening in the hut.

You use Bing?

Hey everyone, we've found him!

😆

It is strange on Google - the top hits are material from 50-150 years ago rather than recent activity.

https://www.google.com/search?q=kaerpfstock

Not possible. Google is not that old

What a carp, orfeful thing to say.

The modern spelling seems to be mainly Chärpf (or Kärpf), maybe explains the old search results. Here it is on UKC:

Chärpf

One would place it in the Glarner Alpen, associated with the Kanton of Glarus, and on the east side of the Klausenpass.

Some pictures at the end of this report on hikr:

https://www.hikr.org/tour/post145613.html

The area is perhaps best known for the Martinsloch (and recent Ju-52 crash)

https://www.hikr.org/dir/Martinsloch_8100/

https://www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/stars/schweiz/ju-52-absturz-senkrecht...

The highest peak is Tödi, a respectable 3614m:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%B6di

And the area is part of the Unesco World Heritage Tectonic Arena Sardona, containing the geologically significant Glarus Thrust:

https://unesco-sardona.ch/en/understand

The Glarus Thrust? Sounds vaguely uncomfortable. That would explain the geological cross section on my mug. I never knew I was being educated whilst drinking my tea. Still wondering about the significance of the numbers though.