50 yr old house, I start thinking K&T

50 years would put the house being built in 1955. That's the time when they started to add the ground bonding tape to type AC, first appeared with 12/2 and 12/3. Many houses were wired with AC. NM was popular then too, the fabric covered type with the undersized ground wire.

In short 1955 was decades after K&T.

-Hal