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Mahatma Gandhi’s glasses fetch £41k at auction | A pair of distinctive round-lensed spectacles belonging
to ‘the Father of Indian Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi has been auctioned for 41,000 pounds. Also, a bottle containing some of the soil the Indian independence campaigner
fell on after he was assassinated aged 78 in 1948 went for 12,000 pounds. The
items were part of an archive relating to Gandhi, which sold for a total of 128,000-pound
this week at Mullock’s auction house in Ludlow , Shropshire . Others items included
a sewing kit, letters, photographs and his prayer book. “There was a great deal
of interest from India in these items that are revered and almost worshipped,”
the Daily Express quoted Richard Westwood-Brookes, auctioneer, as saying.
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