I once knew a guy who worked for an aircraft restoration company. As I understood it, in the case of valuable warbirds, they might retrieve what they could from a jungle, bog,etc, examine the pieces and declare a bakelite knob salvageable. They had drawings for everything and would manufacture an entire aircraft around the knob and market the finished product as a restored warbird along with accompanying price premium.
That may have been a bit of an exaggeration on his part... or not.
Yes that would work,
as long as that knob had a legit
Name Plate with serial numbers.
If we weren’t all having problems with FR these days, that would have earned you a snarky “would you mind posting that again, I didn’t quite catch all of it the first four times.”
So I’ll leave it with a ‘thanks for the reply’.