I think it had a deocrative role. Later it was replaced by peştele de sticlă (the glass fish) put on mileu (doyli, doy).
http://www.latrecut.ro/2006/04/peste-de-sticla/
http://www.stirilekanald.ro/adevarul...-vine-17014557
Here it's another picture (bought frome somebody). A kid, dolls and an "Rubin" 102 tv set:
http://rw6ase.narod.ru/00/twcb_/rubin102.html
http://oldradio.cz/rubin102.htm
http://proradioantic.ro/index.php?x=item&id_p=224
Now I've noticed that one of the buttons is missing.
These sets where more common. My maternal grandparents had one, my grandfather took in at the countriside at my grandmother's relatives, I tryied to take it back, but I couldn't
