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The silver color of the tubes is normal and does not indicate that they are bad. Looking at the pictures, I'd say this radio has not been re-capped (at least not in many decades). For best performance and for safety reasons, it should be re-capped. I don't know what that wire bundled up under the chassis is for; but, the wires coming out of the back of the radio are for antenna and ground connections. Most of those old radios from the '30's do not have built in antennas and require an external antenna for reception. Usually, a six foot piece of wire will work for local stations. From the tube numbers, I can tell that they use 2.5 volt filaments. That means that this radio was probably made prior to 1935. Somewhere around '35, tubes with 6.3 volt filaments replaced the 2.5 volt tubes.
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