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I would take an old tube radio if I were to see one at the dropbox sitting outside of it especially if it had a dry rotted cord or was missing tubes or had broken tubes in it but then again I would wonder if it would be something that they would of still been able to put on the floor and sell even if it was in poor condition (again going back to my 1930s truetone console radio example from earlier that they had for sale on the floor for $100 and it actually sold apparently because I went back there the next day and saw that it was gone) I've also seen them put 1930s vintage 6-way floor lamps on the floor for sale that were in really poor condition (dry-rotted cord and missing the diffuser globe etc.) and I tried to buy some of those old 1930s 6-way floor lamps from them but they had them priced at over $30-$50 which is way more than I'm willing to pay for a lamp like that, especially when I have to completely rewire the lamp (because most of the time the lower candelabra light sockets will still have the old cloth wiring in it that is dry-rotted by now) and I would need to hunt down a new diffuser globe and shade for the lamp which isn't easy or cheap because the old diffuser globes are extremely hard to come by these days because most of them got broken over the years, and plus most of them are made milk glass which is extremely expensive because of how valuable and collectable stuff made of milk glass is now.
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