Help with Recovery from seed

I purchased BTC in 2013 and ETH in 2016, 2017 onwards.

At one stage in 2017 I figured there was enough here that it was worth protecting so I moved the vast majority of my assets from an Exchange to a Trezor.

I secured the Trezor in a safe place in the family home, and committed the seed to a cryptosteel type of sheet of metal.

I recently am going through a rather adversarial and nasty marital separation where my (soon to be ex) wife and her family had unattended access to the entire property. The Trezor (among other items/ documents) is now missing. I made the schoolboy error of also keeping the seed on paper and the Trezor PIN (although not in plaintext, it was via a cypher but not a very sophisticated one) in the house and that is also missing. Both are missing from what I perceived to be a very safe place. There was almost no risk that anyone else could accidentally stumble on these items in the property so the strong likelihood is that either she or her family has taken them (perhaps to try dissipate the assets or perhaps just for safekeeping but they are denying any knowledge of the Trezor whilst admitting to removing documents that were stored in that same place).

The assets still appear on chain to be untouched, no transactions have taken place however I fear that may happen soon once they figure out how to transact or find someone who does.

I have disclosed all assets to my lawyer so I’m not trying to hide anything but I desperately want to secure these assets from theft by moving them to my exchange account (which is already part of my full financial disclosure).

I purchased a new trezor and tried to recover the wallet using the seed on steel but it has failed on every attempt. I can’t believe that I would have written the seed down incorrectly, but the trezor did have a PIN (which I do remember) and I didn’t see anywhere to enter that as part of either the standard or advanced recovery process.

Can anyone advise, or offer any help?

Hello,
Do you recall trying to check your seedphrase back in 2017?
If you still have your 12/24 words you should be good to restore your wallet. Since I did the recovery via CLI, I cannot recall when you enter the PIN (But I guess it was the first thing I did). But the PIN does not have anything to do with the private key, it’s as far as I know optional. It’s the seedphrase that is important.

Are you using the 12 or 24 words recovery procedure? Be aware that there is now a 20 words SLIP method recovery possible.

Good luck w/ the recovery!

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Yes PIN is not involved in recovery at all.
Even you can change your PIN later. It doesn’t matter.

What matters are your seed phrase.

How many words are they?

Maybe they are in not correct orders? Like top-down vs left-right?

Did you use secret passphrase feature in your trezor?

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What is the passphrase feature and how does it impact recovery?

I have 24 words.

Try to google :.

trezor .io Passphrases and hidden wallets

Because i can’t post link here

Hello,
If PassPhrase is new to you, you haven’t used it back in the days you created your wallet.
I would suggest you concentrate on restoring the wallet with the 24 words.

Do you recall trying to check your seedphrase back in 2017?
Did you use the 24 words (BIP) recovery method?
During that process you type in letters, finally you can choose a word, make sure you select the correct one if you have multiple options!

I don’t think I ever tested my seed phrase so perhaps there is a chance it is wrong.
I used BIP-24 words.

Well,
I think then there is really nothing more we can do for you.
Only… if you are certain the first letter AND the sequence of words is correct.

If you have infinitive time you can try all available words with a certain letter, but the odds are pretty low you will get access to your wallet again!
Maybe, only maybe the last word is not correct, this is a CheckSum word. Maybe here is your input mistake.
Again, good luck in the recovery process.

so are you trying to recover from this cyphered seed now? This is very bad practice, and prone to mistakes, most likely either you seed is wrong or you are not deciphering it correctly ot both.