Mad Men Is Auctioning a Chararacter's Suicide Rope and These 9 Other Weird Props

Here are the oddest items on the block

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Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was nothing if not detail-oriented—each scene had to have the right wardrobe, furniture, tchotchkes, and so forth, for the time period—so it makes sense that at the end of the show's seven-season run there would be quite a few props leftover.

Roughly 1,400 items are currently up for auction on Screenbid until Aug. 6, and they range from iconic and practical to altogether odd. (Sadly Ginsberg's nipple isn't for sale.) 

Here are the weirdest (and yes, there will be spoilers for those who haven't watched all the way through):

Lane's Rope — $225

Description: "It all became too much for Lane.

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