KFC founder Colonel Sanders’ personal items, former home and restaurant up for auctionKentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) boxed meal (Photo: Marufish / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0/MGN)SHELBYVILLE, KY (AP) — KFC founder Colonel Sanders ‘ pressure cooker, black bow tie and dozens of other personal items are up for public auction Tuesday night, along with his former home and a dinner house Sanders opened after selling his iconic restaurant chain. “Colonel Sanders was the original celebrity chef,” said Bill Menish, whose firm, The Menish Group, is conducting the auction. Sealed bids for the restaurant and Sanders’ former 5,000-square-foot (465-square-meter) home, which he named Blackwood Hall, will be taken until Friday. 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. Auctioneer Jonathan Klunk said there’s a little-known secret behind the bow tie.