Ingmar Bergman Auction

Clapperboard used in Ingmar Bergman's 1962 drama The Silence

Nearly 340 items that belonged to Ingmar Bergman are to be auctioned by Bukowskis in Stockholm on Sept. 28. Among the items are film cameras, Golden Globe awards, and the chess set that was "probably" used by Max von Sydow's Antonius Block and Bengt Ekerot's Death in the 1957 classic The Seventh Seal.

Also in the auction are a wooden puppet autographed by the actors featured in From the Life of the Marionettes; a portrait of Bergman taken in 1964 by American photographer Irving Penn; a puppet theater similar to the one used in Fanny and Alexander; photographs showing Bergman next to Igor Stravinsky and Bruce the Shark (from Jaws); portraits of cinematographer Sven Nykvist and actor-director Victor Sjöström; and an old suitcase covered in stickers with which Bergman traveled to Cairo and Rome.

According to various reports, Bergman had it stipulated in his will that those assets be auctioned so as to prevent them from being caught up in some "kind of emotional hullabaloo."

As per Bukowskis spokeswoman Charlotte Bergstrom, interest has been so great that even the limited-edition Bergman auction catalog has become a collector's item.

Ingmar Bergman died in his sleep at his home on the island of Fårö, off the coast of Sweden, in 2007. He was 89.