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Road to the Mountain Defect of the Month
Road to the Mountain
Mar, 2024

While this might appear to be a road to a mountain, it is a magnified view of the horizontal crack revealed that the origin was related to a vertical scuff mark with a few associated crescent cracks.  Further investigation led to the conclusion that the scuff marks had been created by the downward sliding contact of the heel of one bottle against the fractured bottle.  This action most likely had occurred during case packing.