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I don't think I've seen one before in person.
Having something that old work with out repair is unusual, but after enough radios pass through ones hands one does see it happen. I own around 130 collectable radios including in that count a few transistor sets, and I have a few examples that have continued to function all these years. Perhaps the oldest I have that worked as found is a 1932 Philco cathedral set which aside from replacement lytics that someone tacked in parallel with the originals back in the 40's judging by the age of the replacements still worked albeit with weak reception, and bad but listenable distortion(restuffing the paper block caps fixed it so well I've left the lytics be). I also have a 1940 Philco, and a 1946 Recordio that work real nice on stock caps. There are even more sets from the 50's onwards including TVs I have that are still running on more or less all vintage parts, but I find 50's onwards survivors much less remarkable than the older stuff.
One of my most prized radio sets also happens to be another uncommon Silvertone though newer and in a deco plastic case.
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