DALLAS, TX.- The Gene Wilder Collection, over 200 items from the personal collection of Gene Wilder, is going up for auction on day four of Heritage’s Hollywood/Entertainment Signature® Auction, Dec. 3 in Dallas.

Additionally, the screen-used Inventing Room Key that Willy Wonka uses to unlock the “Inventing Room” and a Golden Ticket prop from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory will also be going up for auction in separate sessions.

These items from The Gene Wilder Collection are being offered for the first time by the Wilder family to further the legacy of Gene Wilder and will help support the charitable causes that Gene fought for his entire life.

Along with memorabilia from career-defining films, like Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and his work with Mel Brooks, many of the items come directly from his personal life. There are selections from his marriage to comedian Gilda Radner, sketchbooks, handwritten scripts, his passport and wallet, Yamaha piano and much more.

Highlights from The Gene Wilder Collection include:

• Gene Wilder’s Signed United States Passport and Hermès Men’s Leather Wallet with Driver’s License and Membership Cards

• Gene Wilder’s Personal Yamaha Piano

• Gene Wilder’s Personal First Edition of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory “Golden Ticket” Signed by Gene Wilder and Paris Themmen (Mike Teevee)

• Gene Wilder’s Personal Use “Willy Wonka” Hat

• Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Cast Signed Poster

• Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner’s Wedding Album

• Gene Wilder’s Actors Studio Award

• A Young Frankenstein Poster Signed by Gene Wilder

• Gene Wilder’s Personal On-Set Director’s Chair from Something Wilder

• Several Gene Wilder original watercolor works, including Self-Portrait, Painting of Young Woman and Floral Vase over Pink Background