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Mahatma Gandhi's glasses, prayer book up for
auction
Monday April 02, 2012 07:40:06 PM,
IANS
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London: Mahatma
Gandhi's round-lensed spectacles, a personal prayer book and the
soil upon which he fell when he was assassinated are among an
incredible lot of items that will be sold at an auction in
Britain.
Gandhi was shot at point-blank range Jan 30, 1948 and moments
later a bystander, P.P. Nambiar, collected the dirt and some
blades of grass from where he had falled.
Also on auction sale is a series of letters from Gandhi that spell
out his philosophy. The spectacles were bought by Gandhi when he
was studying law in London in the 1890s.
They are all to go for auction along with numerous other personal
items where they are expected to fetch up to 80,000 pounds, Daily
Mail reported Sunday.
The archive has been consigned by a collector along with detailed
provenance and is being sold by Mullock's auction house in Ludlow,
Shropshire, April 17.
His prayer book for sale is written in his native Gujrati language
and there are some important hand-written letters, some signed
with as Bapu.
Another item includes Gandhi's charkha that he had with him when
he travelled to London for the second Round Table Conference in
1931, the Mail said.
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