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A kids’ toy from the 1950s is up for sale, but it would never hit the market today. The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, a radioactive atomic energy lab kit that contains samples of real uranium, also comes with a Geiger-Muller radiation counter and an electroscope to measure radiation levels, so it’s not all that shocking that it was dubbed one of the “10 most dangerous toys of all time” in 2006. Only about 5-thousand of them were ever sold, and they were discontinued in 1951 because of poor sales, but they’ve since become a collector’s item. Now one of the vintage kits is up for grabs at RR Auction, and the current bidding price is $4,400. The auction ends on December 11th.