Stanley Kubrick's Personal Archive Heads to Auction, Featuring 'The Shining' Ax and '2001' Star Child

Key facts

• The auction will take place at Bonhams in London on February 3, with previews in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris.
• The fire ax from The Shining is expected to sell for up to $66,000.
• The Star Child prop from 2001: A Space Odyssey is estimated at up to $1.1 million.
• The ax is made of polyfoam covered in metalized sheeting and foil tape, with two sharp-ended metal bolts and no front blade.
• Scatman Crothers wore a multi-layered chest shield of foam, fiberglass, and a steel plate during the murder scene.
• Three prop axes with bolts were created for the Hallorann death scene; one sold earlier this year and another is in the Warner Bros. archive.
• Other items include a clapperboard, the twin sisters' costumes, Kubrick's director's chair, annotated scripts, and his chess set.
• Kubrick was born in 1928 in the Bronx and worked as a staff photographer for Look magazine at 17.