{"id":4416,"date":"2026-07-28T16:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:12:57","slug":"he-did-wear-clip-ons-kfc-founder-colonel-sanders-pressure-cooker-bow-ties-former-home-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He did wear clip-ons\u2019: KFC founder Colonel Sanders\u2019 pressure cooker, bow ties, former home up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4414\">Trump fired the team tracking teen addiction. The data improved anyway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cColonel Sanders was the original celebrity chef,\u201d said Bill Menish, whose firm, The Menish Group, is conducting\u00a0the auction. \u201cThe feedback has been worldwide, so we needed to have an auction that would cater to that worldwide audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Online pre-bidding concludes with a live, in-person auction for the Sanders memorabilia on Tuesday evening. Sealed bids for the restaurant and Sanders\u2019 former 5,000-square-foot (465 square-meter) home, which he named Blackwood Hall, will be taken until Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders\u2019 personal watches, an original cash register, his cutlery set, a bust sculpted by his daughter and a commercial gas range from the colonel\u2019s former residence are among the items up for bidding.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders sold KFC in 1964 to a group of investors, but continued as a brand ambassador for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4412\">The Clinton Foundation thinks red states can adopt \u2018practical, evidence-based solutions\u2019 from blue states<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Menish called Sanders a \u201cmarketing genius\u201d for creating the character of the colonel.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t dress like that before he was starting to build Kentucky Fried Chicken,\u201d Menish said. \u201cHe adopted the colonel: the clothes, the bow tie, the glasses, the goatee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the most intriguing pieces could be a personal 1964 planner with a handwritten herbs and spices recipe that was later the subject of an early 2000s lawsuit filed by the KFC Corp. to keep the contents private. KFC later dropped the legal action, saying after reviewing the planner the ingredients didn\u2019t match Sanders\u2019 secret blend of\u00a011 herbs and spices, and it was likely a recipe for stuffing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat a keepsake,\u201d Menish said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of Sanders\u2019 signature black bow ties is also up for auction. The highest online bid for the tie was more than $2,000 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4410\">FIFA Chief Infantino lashes out at critics \u2018consumed by hate and criticism\u2019 who spread \u2018hate and false rumors\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Auctioneer Jonathan Klunk said there\u2019s a little-known secret behind the bow tie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a lot of people know, he did wear clip-ons,\u201d Klunk said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders\u2019 personal watches, an original cash register, his cutlery set, and a bust sculpted by his daughter are among the auction items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auction"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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