Some of Margaret Mitchells belongings, Gone of the Wind memorabilia being auctioned off WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

BUFORD, Ga. — The chair Margaret Mitchell sat in to write “Gone with the Wind” will go to the highest bidder.

The author of the masterpiece left behind a few personal items, and Steve Slotin and Slotin Folk Art Auction in Buford has been hired to sell some of them.

Channel 2′s Berndt Petersen spoke with Slotin who says his life’s work has been in the auction business.

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“We sell what is disappearing in America, what is being lost over time,” Slotin said.

In this case, that’s “Gone with the Wind.”  

“I think ‘Gone with the Wind’ is always going to be an American masterpiece,” he said.

Mitchell wrote the Pulitzer Prize winner during the late 1920s and early 1930s in a tiny three-room flat along Peachtree Street in midtown Atlanta. For years, the apartment building as a whole has been known as the Margaret Mitchell House. 

“People wanted to see the place …