KFC founder Colonel Sanders’ pressure cooker, black bow tie, and dozens of other personal items are up for public auction, along with his former home and a dinner house Sanders opened after selling his iconic restaurant chain.
Personal Items and Real Estate
Harland Sanders, still known as the face of the worldwide chain originally known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, established the Shelbyville property as the first headquarters of his restaurant business in the late 1950s. He sold the property, which included his home and the Claudia Sanders Dinner House, in 1974 to Tommy and Cherry Settle, who have run the restaurant since then.
Sanders’ personal watches, an original cash register, his cutlery set, a bust sculpted by his daughter, and a commercial gas range from the colonel’s former residence are among the items up for bidding.
Auction Details
Online pre-bidding concludes with a live, in-person auction for the Sanders memorabilia on Tuesday evening. Sealed bids for the restaurant and Sanders’ former 5,000-square-foot home, which he named Blackwood Hall, will be taken until Friday.
Original reporting: Dallas TX News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
