[morzh]

That thought is always in the back of my mind.
Doesn't make me pause though

Someone ob the Facebook asked me (after I pblished the photos): "Have you re-used your old wiring?"
(I have hi-res photos, I thought it was kinda obvious).

All things there, even the absolutely pristibe shiny-looking (inside the case) tuning caps are 103 years old (10A were produced in 1923). My grandpa just turned 20 and had no kids, my parents were 12 and 14 years from being born.
Vladimir Lenin was living his last year and NEP (New Economic Policy, that allowed capitalism/private enterprise in the Soviet Russia) was in its peak.

This radio has outlived its original owners, probably by a lot of years. And will outlive me.
It has lived through many world events and reported on many of them, though I doubt it saw lots of use by the time the talking furniture sets became widely popular.

But someone took care of it, preserved it and kept it, so someone else, and then Ron, and now me, could take it and bring it back to life.

In a way it is like flying an original Wrights' plane, or being inside an actually working watermill, or seeing a whiskey made in a 100-plus copepr still.

Pretty fascinating. For, of course, the people who could appreciate that.