Andrew Sachs’ old Fawlty Towers scripts are tipped to sell for over £5,000 at auction.
The late actor played hapless waiter Manuel in the cult sitcom.
He died in 2016, aged 86.
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Now his family are putting five scripts from the BBC show – which ran from 1975 to 1979 – up for sale.
It starred John Cleese as Basil Fawlty and Prunella Scales – who died last Monday – as his wife Sybil.
Three of the scripts from the episodes Basil the Rat, Communications Problems and The Kipper and the Corpse are likely to go for up to £1,200 each.
While those for The Psychiatrist, Waldorf Salad and Gourmet Night are set to fetch up to £600 each.
They are set to sell for a combined £5,400, as reported on What’s The Jam.
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The collection also includes his Fawlty Towers award for The 4th International Cult TV Awards Best Comedy Series, which has a guide of up to £500.
Additional lots include a further award, Andrew Sachs’ personal collection of CDs and DVDs, cassettes and audiobooks, photographs, postcards and other effects.
Sachs’s daughter Kate said: “I have been holding onto them for years.
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“It’s just a huge emotional and sentimental attachment.
“So it is really hard to let them go,.”
Yet she added: “But I need to be realistic and find homes for these things where they will be treasured rather than let them gather dust.”
The Ewbank’s auction takes place on 14 November, in Woking, Surrey.
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