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The Collectors Guide to Antique Radios 7th ed (10 years old now) says it is $110-145 and has 8 tubes.....Granted it is old and only a GUIDE book.

I have seen 15 tube Philcos (a better and more desirable/valueable set) go for $30 at radio collector club swapmeets....And I've had lower tube count consoles in nice shape that I've had to donate to the club to get rid of (no one would pay money to have one).

$75 ain't unreasonable for a real nice one, and someplaces in the USA it might be a deal, but other places you can do better for cheaper and never sell it for that price.
Ultimately what matters is if you like it enough to spend $75 on it.

Aunty-Q shoppes tend to be a ripoff for buying radios...When I visit those places I usually only buy if the price is in line with or cheaper than what I see them selling for at meets, or if the set in question is something especially rare that I happen to have been speciffically looking for and the rarity balances out the premium.

Also a phono input to hook an MP3 player into ain't all that special...Many sets had them (all you need to do is adapt the factory connector to a 1/8" plug), and adding an audio input is easy on the vast majority of sets*. You just have to find an audio line before the volume pot and after the (2nd) detector, cut it, add a SPDT switch, connect the switch wiper the amp end, one of the fixed switch contacts to the radio det side of the cut, and the other to your MP3 player audio hot leads** and ground the audio ground to the chassis. Check if there is no DC voltage on the audio line in (if there is ask how to fix it). There are a handful of small tricks for doing it best in some cases, but that is a "cross that bridge when you come to it" deal.

Any hot chassis (ie transformerless) set even if it has factory phono input is dangerous to connect to any audio source that is plugged into the wall or grounded...Unless you power the radio (and only the radio) through a line isolation transformer, or connect the audio through an isolation transformer.

*(20's and a portion of sets mid 30's and earlier had RF stage volume controls that make adding phono inputs a pain)

**If you have 2 audio hot leads get 2 1K ohm resistors, connect a lead of one resistor to one audio lead and a lead of the other resistor to the other lead, connect the remaining unconnected resistor ends to eachother then connect the junction of the 2 resistors to the audio input on your radio.