Age of masters


Seeing new releases using re-masters which to me means they use the original 40+ year old master and twiddle some knobs.

Do 40+ year old masters still have viable iron oxide?  Would high frequencies suffer? Or do I misunderstand re-mastering?
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One such collector was HW of VPI who used such tapes to guide his TT production.  His stated goal was to make his TTs sound like these tapes.
Mercury is about to re-release its entire classical catalog.  Some of the masters are as much as 70 years old and still sound great.