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Sorry to hear this Scott, it is indeed a much harder loss to cop when the item has sentimental value/personal memories for you.
Look on Gumtree & FB ads to see if anything is listed over the next few weeks - yup they are that dumb that they would list for sale on sites like these.
When Sirius Optics was smashed into and robbed many years ago the culprits took a lot of stuff. Over the course of a year a so a number of items were found during a police raid of a drug lab.
One item a Lunt Solar 60mm was kept under the "cooks" table and the damage that the white enamel copped was incredible - little bubbles and pits all over the tube - and people ingest this stuff!! Amazingly the optics hadn't been exposed so the scope still worked - we had it checked for safety reasons to be sure though, but it was never sold on. I heard the "cook" had no idea what it or the other items were (cameras, eyepieces etc) other than apparently being part of a payment for his wares.
Oh and this is dead set true the street that the items were recovered from had an astronomical name!
I remember John Dobson once telling me about the scopes that were often stolen from him/his van and how he remained philosophical about it, hoping the thieves would put the scope/s to good use and learn/teach something about the sky and the universe they inhabited. He said "I not running out of scopes".
Best wishes in getting your items back Scott.
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