The Ware for this month is shown below:

It’s a tiny portion of a much larger ware, but for various reasons I think this is sufficient for someone to guess at least the type of ware this came from, if not the exact make/model.

There’s a particularly interesting bit about this ware, which you can see in the center of the left module – a tiny bit of wire that is out of place! It’s pretty rare to find small manufacturing defects like this in the wild. So far, this defect hasn’t caused a functional issue but I suppose some day it may. I wonder if this is a so-called “tin whisker” (i.e., a piece of metal that will keep growing with time until it causes a fault), or if it is just an errant bit of metal left over as an artifact of the manufacturing process. Only time will tell, I suppose!

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