-sold for £260,000
A pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for £260,000 after being found hanging in the letterbox of a Bristol auction house.
“We found them just four weeks ago in our letterbox, left there by a gentleman whose uncle had been given them by Gandhi himself,” East Bristol Auctions wrote on Instagram on Friday. “An incredible result for an incredible item! Thanks to all those who bid.”
Gandhi was fond of giving out old or unwanted pairs of spectacles to those in need or to those who had helped him. He gave the glasses to the vendor’s uncle while he was working for British Petroleum in South Africa during the 1920s or 30s, said the auction house.
But despite new reservations on Gandhi by the black movement advocates, it was shocking to realize such whooping hundreds of thousands for the glasses.
Recall that the Statue of Gandhi removed from the University of Ghana, 2years ago for what Advocates cite because of his Racist views about Africans. The Monument was taken away in the middle of night amid controversy after protests from students and faculty who argue the Indian independence leader considered Africans “inferior”.
The statue was earlier unveiled at the university in the Ghanian capital Accra four years ago but has been the subject of controversy.
