Well the rare item guide does say they're still in circulation.
It doesn't really matter to me. I don't like handheld items anyways. I still need all of Channah's items, and a few NPC items as well. So it's no biggie.
Remember how I said I needed the Easter/Pattys/April Fools 11 items? Apparently I bought the items back in April and sent them to myself from my mule. Just saw a trade from my mule to my main dated April 24th when I went to send crunky the bee headphones for the page prize in my event thread.