A few years back I inherited some of my Dad's dad's planes, and they have a place of honour in my shop, and I try to use them as much as I can. They included a Stanley #8 that had a crack in it that I had repaired.
This summer we travelled from Saskatoon to Thunder Bay, Ontario, and on the return trip stopped to visit one of Mom's sisters outside Winnipeg. She loaded a couple of buckets full of my other grampa's tools into the back of our van, and I've finally had a chance to do an inventory. Unfortunately, they'd been stored in an unheated garage for who knows how long, so rust is something of an issue, but not on all of the tools.
Besides a bunch of files with varying degrees of rust from light to severe, and a number of different pliers and snips, I found a smaller Yankee driver, and a smaller, similar driver marked "Hoppe, Germany" with several pristine auger bits in the handle. As well, marked Starret, what appears to be an adjustable handle for small files.
And then, the planes:
Two Stanley 110's in reasonable shape.
A body for a number 130, jappaning bubbled, rusty
The rest are in good to very good condition:
Two #4s, a #5, #80, #90, #151 and a #40 1/2 in really great shape.
Knowing Grampa's history, most of these tools are probably 50 years or older.
Pretty soon, I'll them all cleaned up and in use. Then I'll have two grandfathers smiling down on my shop.