OP, forget about the 1.09BTC since you only have 9 words.
The OP states that only the first 9 symbols of the private key are visible. I read this as the first 9 characters of usually a private key in WIF format on a faded paperwallet. Be it aged or fabricated, well that's unknown.
Now that I think of it, I find it strange that no QR code or traces of it is visible. It it quite common for paperwallets to include a QR code for quick and convenient read-out of public address or private key of a paperwallet. Nobody wants and should have to copy a WIF key by retyping it by hand, that's absurd.
How is the amount known of the public address which corresponds to the only partially visible private key? Well, it could be written on the readable part of the paperwallet. The OP just mentions it without further details and AFAIR none were further asked in the thread as it turns out it would be basically impossible to brute-force it.
Glimpsing again over the thread, I've a feeling that there's still some lack of details, but chances are very very slim. You would need more details like the public address, hopefully an exposed public key in the blockchain, be lucky with some more outgoing transactions that the corresponding public address was involved in.
I'd still say from gutt feeling: it's a lost case.
