Silvertone model 4663 tombstone working original circa 1938

[Tubejunke]

I have a super nice example of this radio that I have seen called the "holy grail" of antique radio in at least one place on the WWW. I acquired it around 1982 at the age of 13. I was drawn to it and had to have it. Seems like Dad let me trade a 22 rifle for it. It worked then and still works like new today. I have had to replace one original tube in all these years! Electronically it's bizarre really to have something that has lasted that long with no real repair, or very little.

I was just wondering if anyone here has, or has had one of these and if indeed it is such a great find. Any thoughts or comments would be great! The pic is not my actual radio. Mine looks that good or better. A guy has a site doing a restoration on one of these, so I snagged a shot from there. Reason being is that his pics are K byte sized and easy to upload here as opposed to using my camera which always produces pics in M byte size and that takes forever to upload on a dial up connection. Yes, some people still use dial up!