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Maybe, when talking to the 'friend', mention that the postcards were scanned and that the authorities have been informed in case anyone tries to sell them. Also is there any way you can let Ebay know they have been stolen?

Ann
Glos

A dreadful shock for your dear Mum. I hope that she eventually gets them back.. A kind offer of her home while she was in England and, that happens..... Beggars belief.
Love Maisie

Just who can you trust nowadays-such a shocking thing to do - bless your Mum - hope you gets them back. XX.

sorry maggie i always miss read

its so frustraiting isnt it that they took such valued sentimental stuff,
hard for her to trust someone again

Julie Ann - no Portuguese are involved!!

Thanks for your support - I'm slowly calming down - had to be very restrained on the phone!!
Mum has scanned the fronts of the postcards on to her computer, and written down what was on the back - but it's not the same - just wonder if we could circulate them - but then, who to!!

maggie

So sad that she had her trust broken!

xx

I don't blame you Maggie, her trust has been breached, and if you cannot trust family and friends, who can you trust.......the trouble is that she will not be able to prove it.......what miserable people to do such a thing.......mind you they could have taken the whole thing......at least she is left with something.....

Sorry to hear about it and hope this will not be a setback to her....x

I don't blame you, Maggie. Rest assured though, what goes around comes around; the beauty of it is that you don't have to do a thing.
Mind you, it'd be nice to see justice done sooner rather than later.
(((HUGS))) to your Mum - and you.
x

You are right

Scum

Hope mum gets them back

Jan x

Just phoned my mum, who recently went back to Portugal, where she lives, after having a major heart operation over here.
While she was over here, she let the sister of a friend and her family from England stay in her house for a free holiday, on condition they fed & walked the dogs.
She also had (English) painters in - but only to paint the outside of the house.
The only other person in the house was Elena, her cleaner.
While watching Antiques Roadshow, someone had some old seaside 'dirty' postcards.
Mum remembered she had some that used to belong to my late gran, in a photograph album on the bookshelf, .
Mum got the album down - to find the postcards missing!! Everything else was there - ordinary postcards from the late 1800's onwards, photographs we took of family homes, birthday cards from my ggranparents to gran etc - just the 'dirty' postcards were missing.
It is unlikely to be Elena - she's been with mum for years and wouldn't jeapordise her job, besides which she's Russian and probably wouldn't realise the postcard's worth.
What's really galling is that those postcards may have monetary value, but to us it was the writing on the back - and an insight into our family humour.
It's also nasty to think someone went through her stuff!!
I have suggested when she sees the friend, whose sister stayed, she mentions that she was going to send them to me, they're not in the album so she supposes she must have taken them out and put them somewhere - and how age is catching up with her - and watch his face. Once a thief always a thief and perhaps his sister or one of her family has done this sort of thing before.

I am so angry!!

maggie