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KFC founder Colonel Sanders’ personal items, former home and restaurant up for auction
Nearly 100 items, including Sanders’ planner and signature bow tie, are drawing worldwide bids as the restaurant and former home are also sold.
- On Tuesday, an auction for KFC founder Harland Sanders' personal items, Blackwood Hall, and Claudia Sanders Dinner House concludes in Shelbyville, drawing global interest according to auctioneer Bill Menish.
- Harland Sanders established the Shelbyville property as his original business headquarters in the late 1950s; Tommy and Cherry Settle have operated the Claudia Sanders Dinner House there since purchasing it in 1974.
- Items up for bid include personal watches, a commercial gas range, and a signature black bow tie that reached bids exceeding $2,000 on Monday, alongside a 1964 planner.
- Bill Menish, whose firm The Menish Group is conducting the sale, called Sanders a 'marketing genius' for cultivating the Colonel persona; online pre-bidding concludes Tuesday evening while sealed bids for the property are accepted until Friday.
- Global feedback prompted The Menish Group to structure an auction catering to a worldwide audience, according to Menish, serving collectors seeking pieces from the life of the man who built Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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KFC founder Colonel Sanders' signature bow tie and personal planner sell at auction
KFC founder Harland Sanders’ signature black bow tie and dozens of his personal items were up for public auction. The family who bought his dinner house and residence in Kentucky also is auctioning off those properties this week. The Claudia…
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Own part of KFC history at Colonel Sanders auction. See items for sale
From his iconic bow tie to an original cash register, collectors can snag some of the items that made Colonel Sanders and KFC a household name.
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Independent EspañolSHELBYVILLE, Kentucky, USA (AP) — The pressure cooker of the founder of KFC, Colonel Sanders, his black bow tie and dozens of other personal items will go out to public auction on Tuesday night, along with his former home and a...
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