BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Burlington man hopes to recover a 1972 Fender Telecaster electric guitar that his late brother received during a Seattle trip arranged through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Ben Hardy said his brother Josh was 17 when he received the guitar that had been autographed by Mike McCready and his Pearl Jam band mates, hung out with Nirvana and jammed with the Posies in October 1991. The teen, who suffered from a brain tumor, died three months after returning to the family’s home in Durham, N.H.

The guitar and other items were stolen from Ben Hardy’s home between Thanksgiving and Dec. 5 while he was in Peru, he told the Burlington Free Press (http://bfpne.ws/vOCi2J).

“This is really the only thing I have of his,” Hardy told the newspaper. “It was a memento from that trip. That was his last trip. The monetary value means nothing. It’s Josh’s guitar.”

But that wasn’t all.

The burglars also took a money clip that Ben Hardy kept as a keepsake from another brother, Nate, a Navy SEAL who died in a firefight with insurgents in 2008 on his fourth tour in Iraq, said the father, Stephen Hardy, a University of New Hampshire professor.

“They can’t take away the memories,” said mom Donna Hardy.

In addition to the Telecaster and money clip, burglars stole four other guitars, a sound system, a turntable, power tools and clothes. A neighbor’s house was targeted as well.