They're out there, but you have to keep hunting, and hope for some luck.
No matter where you are, there were always the unwanted Christmas gifts!
Giving a relative you didn't particularly like, a tool he couldn't use, or maybe not even know what it was?? Is a really really old joke.
Many tools we desire, were --all-- probably unwanted gifts once.
Never used, thrown in the attic and forgotten?
The tools that got used are well, used.
Any 100 year old tool you see in good shape now?
Well 8 out of 10 it was something nobody particularly wanted in the first place.
From never to hardly ever used at all.
People now, in this day and age,
mostly collect the "white elephant tool" given to Uncle Jim,
and snickered about for some years, around the family fireplace.
I own two of these tools I can guarantee were unwanted gifts. A Stanley 605 and a Stanley #65 low angle knuckle cap block.
These two belonged to a friend of mine Milton Kevershan.
Milt was about as likely to start a working workshop, as a rhinocerous is to dance the hully gully.
Milt had a long life and a lot of relatives though. Between them, they gave him tools as presents for years and years. I saw them all. A whole lifetime of Sears or Wards or the corner hardware.
Milt had a little more money then some, so he got a little better presents and the better brands or at least the midline brands, were represented.
I worked on Milts workshop. A shop he had built in his latter years.
Someone else built it, (at 37 cents an hour most usually, Milt was someone you did business with -very- alertly)
but I made it work in the end.
Usual thing. He'd sucker in some schlub to do most of the work and then after they bailed, he paid me strict cash, buy the hour, due at every days end...... to finish up.
yours Scott