DETECTIVES want to trace the owner of a collection of stamps and old postcards recovered from a house in Barrowford.

The collection includes first edition English stamps mainly from the 1960s and two albums, one deep red and the other dark brown, containing Commonwealth and other foreign issues.

There is also a collection of old postcards.

Detective Sergeant Steve Chard said: "We would very much like the owner to claim them. We believe they may have been stolen during a burglary or perhaps from a vehicle."

Anyone with information is asked to contact DS Chard on 01282 4726444.

Sergeant Steve Chard is pictured with the haul.

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