"I'm at the Grey Gardens estate sale, where the line is nearly 200 deep and folks arrived at 4 AM."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I’m at the Grey Gardens estate sale, where the line is nearly 200 deep and folks arrived at 4 AM. The merchandise is both from the Beale and Brandee families. Here’s some of the Edithes stuff:

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A chair, clawed by the Edies cats, went for $495 and Big Edie’s silver hand mirror for $75 at the Grey Gardens estate sale.

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Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, formerly upper class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival but was not entered into the main competition.

Everything You Need to Know About the Grey Gardens Estate Sale

Big and Little Beale's beds could be yours.

by SAM DANGREMOND NOV 2, 2017

In about two weeks, Grey Gardens will be empty. Sally Quinn bought the 1897 East Hampton home nearly 40 years ago with her late husband, Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee. After putting it on the market for just under $20 million in February, Quinn reduced the asking price by $2 million in April and found a buyer last month.

Now she has enlisted Susan Wexler and her service, Behind the Hedgerows, to handle an estate sale planned for November 17 to 19 that will include almost everything in the house—even the beds Jackie Kennedy's eccentric relatives, Big and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, used when they lived there, and the American flags with which Little Edie famously paraded around the house in the 1975 documentary that made her and her mother famous. In order to participate you'll have to visit Grey Gardens in person to make a purchase. Wexler says discounts may be offered on day two and three.

While the prices haven't been set yet, Wexler says there will be "a range of high and low." Here, Wexler offers a look at some of what will be sold.

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BEHIND THE HEDGEROWS

The original dining room table belonged to Grey Gardens's first owner, landscape architect Anna Gilman.

The two armchairs and four side chairs in the foreground are also original.

[underpants]

1. I had a former coworker who just loved that documentary

[Tikki]

2. Scarves...Must be a lot of scarves for sale.

Have fun.

Tikki

[Mike Nelson]

3. Lol...

... I'm from the Georgica area of East Hampton. Their scratched-up, defecated on furniture was worthless!

[Laffy Kat]

4. Some of it does look nasty.

Over $400 for a cat-claw scratched up chair?

[Aristus]

5. I don't know why there was any admiration for those two.

Just a couple of lazy old ladies who couldn't do a lick of work for themselves.

[llmart]

6. Yuck.

You may have to fumigate what you buy

That documentary was bizarre.