Surfing the net today looking for ispiration, I found this thing of beauty on neha.manoka’s flickr photostream with an explanation of where it’s from. Thanks for permission to show it off here!

“Made in 1983 this is a 25 years old classic 4.5V zinc-carbon battery with its three 1.5V cells enclosed in a cardboard case. It was a very common thing in the “past era” in Hungary. Obeying to the laws of physics almost all of them have disappeared since as these babies had a natural habit to leak.”

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