I agree with others, I doubt a hobby shop in the past would spend time finding something like this, and these days, even more so. Just my experience/opinion, but I doubt a LHS unless they are really a unicorn would spend much time searching for an item like that, unless as someone else said you would be willing to pay them for their time. Not to mention that likely they don't have mystical sources they call, they probably use the internet the way most of us do. Searches like you are talking about usually happen in the art or other high end collectibles markets and dealers who do that generally get paid for doing it, quite a bit.
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