The auctioneer Andrew Stow has described these glasses as his company’s biggest discovery, according to him, Mahatma Gandhi wore these glasses in South Africa.
Mahatma Gandhi’s spectacles found unclaimed in a letterbox in Britain have been auctioned. Last month, an auction house staff found the glasses lying in envelopes in the company’s letterbox, after which they were auctioned off on Friday. It is said that these glasses of Gandhiji were sold only after a bid of 6 minutes. That too at nearly 20 times the estimated bid.
Head of the East Bristol Auctions Company and auctioneer Andrew Stow had estimated bids for spectacles up to £ 15,000 (about Rs 14 lakh). However, the spectacle was auctioned within six minutes. That too for 2 lakh 60 thousand British pounds (about 2.5 crores rupees). According to Andrew, this is his company’s auction record. Who bought these glasses of Mahatma Gandhi has not been disclosed. However, it has been said that an American collector bid them through
It is reported that the owner of this spectacle is an elderly man from Mangottsfield, who will share the money received from the auction with his daughter. It is reported that his family had these glasses from the last few generations. In 1920, the family received the spectacles through a relative who had met Gandhi in South Africa.
According to auctioneer Andrew Stow, the glasses Bapu wore in South Africa were found in an envelope in a letterbox by an employee of his company. The envelope remained in the letterbox from Friday to Monday. However, when Stowe found the specs, he began investigating it. It turned out that these gold-plated glasses of round shape are of Gandhiji’s early wear, when he was in South Africa, because his power is very low. Stow has considered it the most important discovery of his life.
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