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.

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 operated the restaurant ever since. The sale is drawing attention not just because of the memorabilia, but because it ties together several parts of Sanders’ public legacy: the home where he lived, the business he built and the branded image that helped make him one of the most recognizable figures in fast food.

“Colonel Sanders was the original celebrity chef,” said Bill Menish, whose firm, The Menish Group, is conducting the auction. “The feedback has been worldwide, so we needed to have an auction that would cater to that worldwide audience.”

Online pre-bidding ends 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 (465-square-meter) home, which he named Blackwood Hall, will be accepted until Friday. The separate bidding formats reflect the range of items on offer, from personal effects to real estate tied to Sanders’ business history.

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 being offered.

Sanders sold KFC in 1964 to a group of investors, but continued to serve as a brand ambassador for the company. That later role helped keep his image closely associated with the chain even after ownership changed hands.

Menish described Sanders as a “marketing genius” for creating the Colonel persona.

“He didn’t dress like that before he was starting to build Kentucky Fried Chicken,” Menish said. “He adopted the colonel: the clothes, the bow tie, the glasses, the goatee.”

One of the most notable items is a personal 1964 planner with a handwritten herbs and spices recipe that became the subject of an early 2000s lawsuit filed by KFC Corp. seeking to keep its contents private. KFC later dropped the legal action, saying that after reviewing the planner, the ingredients did not match Sanders’ secret blend of 11 herbs and spices and were likely a recipe for stuffing.

“What a keepsake,” Menish said.

One of Sanders’ signature black bow ties is also being auctioned. The highest online bid for the tie was more than $2,000 on Monday.

Auctioneer Jonathan Klunk said there is a little-known detail behind the bow tie.

“Not a lot of people know, he did wear clip-ons,” Klunk said.

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com.