Your batteries might well have supported a telephone system, or very
possibly a dc electric system. They are not rare, as I have seen them in
"antique" shops on several occasions. When the local electric company here
renovated part of its old plant about 20 years ago, they discarded a lot of
somewhat larger glass cells (without the Exide mark), which had apparently
been part of a backup battery system for the power grid! probably in the
19th century.
John Vanco
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John Vanco
Erie Art Museum
411 State Street
Erie, PA 16501
Phone 814-459-5477
Fax 814-452-1744
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