Well, it has actually had quite a bit of work done on it, and is therefore not strictly speaking an antique. It was imported into New Zealand, just before 1900 I think, by my teacher's brother. He was rather eccentric in that he did all his playing on it, saying to people, "I can hear it, why can't you ?" While it is no doubt nice to have the aural equivalent of eidetic recall, I am sure most of us do like to hear the reality when we play. I think he must have been obsessive in his use of it as when he died the black keys were worn down. My teacher, who, as well as having been a musical prodigy was a highly skilled builder and cabinetmaker by trade (in the days before his musical career - spiral staircase specialist apparently) fitted a modern keyboard, tweaked the mechanism and replaced a leg, which had become unstable with borer. He then sold it to me. That was in 1968.
Neither of us could see any point in keeping it in a dilapidated condition just to preserve its antique status, when it could have an amazingly useful life in the cause of piano technique.
Topic: Piano relics in your home