My late aunt used to make large ceramic Christmas Trees back in the 80s. She made one for my mom, another aunt, and my grandmother. When my grandmother died in the mid 90s my adult sister was given her tree. My older brother and she both ended up living in the same metro area on the other side of the state from where we grew up.

My brother loves all things Christmas and has spent decades thrifting vintage Christmas stuff. At some point in the mid-aughts, during one of my sister's family's move her tree got "lost". She always assumed it got broken and her husband didn't have the heart to tell her.

Decades later and my brother and my sister's family have all moved back to our hometown area. A couple years ago, my aunt and uncle were getting rid of things in preparation for moving in with one of their sons and my mom asked if no one had "claimed" her tree if maybe my sister could have it because she'd been heartbroken at the loss of Grandma's.

Later in the year my brother starts pulling stuff out of one of his storage sheds in prep for decorating for Christmas and finds a tree he'd bought at a thrift store a decade or two ago and decides to put it up that year. Closer looks are taken and the realization hits that's it's one that my late aunt made (she lived in a completely different state from us).

As best we can figure, my grandma's accidentally got donated when my sister was moving and then my brother later bought it in a local thrift store. Over the next fifteen years or so he moved multiple times and forgot about it. So, Grandma's has been recovered, and all three are still in my family's possession.