A diehard “Sopranos” fan drove down from Connecticut, hoping to acquire one of Paulie Walnuts’s velour track suits, and another closed his office in Queens so he could hunt for a poster advertising Christopher Moltisanti’s failed slasher film, “Cleaver.” A Tony Soprano impersonator was searching for the clock from Carmela’s kitchen.

Heeding Internet rumors that HBO was liquidating its prop warehouse nine days after its most popular television series ended its six-season run, “Sopranos” devotees flocked to Long Island City yesterday looking to purchase mobster memorabilia.

Alas, the clock, the jumpsuits, and the movie poster were nowhere to be found among aisles packed with vintage lampshades, ash trays, drinking glasses, eyeglasses, brushes, and combs accumulated during the 10 years of planning and shooting the show.

“There’s nothing valuable in there, as far as I know,” a co-executive producer of “The Sopranos,” Henry Bronchtein, warned customers as he shuffled them into the warehouse, 30 at a time.

Everything considered most valuable had been shipped to a studio in Los Angeles to be archived before the warehouse floodgates were opened, Mr. Bronchtein said.

There was also no guarantee that anything inside the 40,000-square-foot storage space had even appeared in the television series, as entire shelves of tchotchkes could have been leftovers from other television shows that shared the storage space, he said.

Like true believers, however, most customers seemed satisfied that their loot was linked to “The Sopranos,” even if they had no way of verifying its origins.

“Ultimately, it’s a giant yard sale, but it all comes with enough prominence that I can give it to my brother-in-law as a gift and he’ll be happy,” a writer based in Brooklyn, Mimi O’Connor, said.

A framed drawing of an amoeba with “Melfi” scratched in sharpee on the back was a find for Christina Grossi, who works in the fashion industry. “It looks like Dr. Melfi’s style,” Ms. Grossi said. “Of course I’m going back to watch now and look for it.”

Cleaning house after a show ends is standard practice in the television industry, Mr. Bronchtein said. Warehouse liquidation sales sometimes draw as little attention as any neighborhood yard sale — but not when they’re associated with “The Sopranos.”

By 11:30 a.m. yesterday, a few hundred fans had already cycled through the warehouse, most leaving with a cartload of what looked like classic yard sale junk for about $35 a load. Production personnel said they hoped to sell out the entire warehouse by Monday.

“Did you know she graduated from Tufts?” one browsing fan asked, holding up an extra copy of one of Dr. Melfi’s diplomas discovered in the bottom of a filing cabinet (production personnel told her the phony diploma was one of hundreds of extra copies that was never used on the set).

The actress who played Tony’s therapist, Lorraine Bracco, even put in a brief appearance alongside her discarded props, NY1 reported last night.

Not everyone at the clearance sale was there as a collector or a fan.

“I’ve never seen ‘The Sopranos,'” a retired FBI agent, Marty Towey, said as he browsed for planters and candlesticks. “I dealt with the real stuff, so I didn’t need to watch the show. I’m just here for a deal.”