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Originally Posted by Leo.G
I was given some old photography gear recently, quite a bit of it and going through the tubs (and removing corroded batteries from Metz flash gear and other stuff) I found one AA battery. Before I could say anything my son had grabbed the battery tester and put the battery in. The battery from memory is from the 70s/early 80s. I do not remember the red Eveready past the 70s but couldn't find much information online (Australian Union Carbide product).
Most of the gear in the tubs is from the 70s or earlier.
I'd never even heard of a Miranda 35mm camera and I spent a lot of time around photography gear from 11 years of age (71) up.
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Eveready changed to a square gold bordered version of their 9 lives cat logo in the mid to late 1980s, and then to a square white bordered version of it in the early 1990s. I've found a photo on ebay of a bunch of Canadian sold ones with the white border. Australia had the same label design at that time as well.
In the early to mid 1970s, for general sales, with that red oval 9 lives cat logo, there were only Eveready silver, and red batteries. Alkaline Eveready Gold Energizer did exist with that old logo, but they were not common to see at all.
In the early 1980s, Eveready introduced the Eveready Black, Super Heavy Duty batteries range with the oval logo.
Miranda was a camera manufacturer from Japan through to the late 1970s. In the 1980s, the brand was used by Dixons in the UK, which is where I remember their name from, due to their ads in the UK camera magazines I bought in the mid to late 1980s.