Inferior (cracked, crude, damaged, low quality) items - which are worth picking up?

Inferior items (cracked, crude, damaged, low quality) can be turned into normal versions with Recipe: Normal Quality Armor of Same Type or Recipe: Normal Quality Weapon of Same Type. However their item level is then set to 1 so the number of sockets is limited and all auto mods / staff mods are re-rolled. In some cases this can actually be an advantage but in most cases it makes no sense because the number of possible sockets is too low or the staff mods / auto mods that can still roll are not worth it.
In addition to those two recipes there is also the imbue quest ( Tools of the Trade) for which the item quality doesn't matter. Giving Charsi a low quality or a superior item is the same as giving her a normal item. This is my personal and rather short list of inferior items I pick up. Please feel free to let me know if I've overlooked any valuable items.

Tools of the Trade

• +2 skills Circlet: Tiara (the char should be 73 before using it) and Diadem (any clvl is fine). Circlet and Coronet are also possible but require a higher char level and I usually find enough tiaras and diadems.

Recipe: Normal Quality Armor of Same Type

• 3 socket armor: Mage Plate as well as Dusk Shroud, Wyrmhide, Scarab Husk, Wire Fleece, Great Hauberk and Archon Plate (I don't use medium or heavy armors on my chars, so only the light elite armors are in the list).
• 3 socket paladin shield: Zakarum Shield and Vortex Shield (these are the only two with a high enough qlvl to still get 35-45 to all res).
• 2 socket shrunken head: all shrunken heads can still get +3 Raise Skeleton and +3 Skeleton Mastery.

Recipe: Normal Quality Weapon of Same Type

• 3 socket Phase Blade: since phase blades are never ethereal anyway and a 3 socket Phase Blade has some use cases.
• 2 socket wands: all wands except Wand, Yew Wand and Burnt Wand (those can only get 1 socket) but all wands can get +3 Raise Skeleton and +3 Skeleton Mastery.

Edit: added shrunken heads and wands mentioned by @vued here and by @Knappogue on the recipe pages