[EricS]

Yeah, I was really impressed how nice the hinge looked once I cleaned it up.   This is what led me to the conclusion that the brass plates aren't really that dirty after all.   I might try to re-apply some antique finish to the color tone plate to darken it again to match the rest of the plates.  At this point, the worst part of the radio is the lid: it has lots of little scratches on it (most of them make it into the wood) and it has split open a bit at one end.