Gandhi Auction

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  Mahatma Gandhis Personal Bowl, Spoons To Be Auctioned In UK

  A small, rusted metal bowl, two wooden spoons and a wooden fork -- once used by Mahatma Gandhi -- will be sold at an auction in Bristol, United Kingdom, on January 10 at an opening price of GBP 55,000 which, after adding auctioneer's commission, GST, insurance, freight and Indian customs duty on import of antique items would all add up to Rs 1.2 cr...

• India buys Gandhi archive from Sotheby's to halt auction

  India has paid $1.1 million to buy a collection of letters, papers and photographs relating to Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi, preventing their sale at a planned auction in London. The archive, which belonged to Gandhi's close friend Hermann Kallenbach, a German Jewish bodybuilder and architect, was to have gone under the hammer at Sotheb...

• Auction of Gandhi's memorabilia unfortunate: Azad

  Terming the auction of belongings of Mahatama Gandhi as unfortunate, Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said he was not in favour of sale of these precious items.

• Grass with Mahatma Gandhi's blood sells for £10,000

  A pinch of soil and blood-stained blades of grass from the place where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 sold for 10,000 pounds at an auction in London today that also saw many other Gandhi memorabilia going under the hammer including his iconic round-rimmed glasses that fetched more than twice the estimated price. While the glasses sold fo...

• Don't auction blade of grass with Gandhi's blood, he urges

  Noted Hindi writer Giriraj Kishore has threatened to return his 2007 Padma Shri award and go on fast, if the government fails to stop next month's auction of Mahatma Gandhi's belongings including the blade of grass containing a drop of his blood following his assassination in January, 1948.

• Family regrets auction of soil with Mahatma's blood

  Mahatma Gandhi's descendants have expressed regret over the forthcoming auction of a "clump of soil with drops of the Mahatma's blood collected from the site of his assassination" by the British auction house Mullock's. "The auctioning of the clump of soil with a few claimed drops of Mahatma Gandhi's blood sounds reprehensible...morbid. But if the...

• Soil which Mahatma fell on after assassination to be auctioned

  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 on Jan 30, 1948 and moments later a bystander, P.P. Nambiar, collected the dirt and some blades of grass from...

• Rare Mahatma photos to be auctioned tomorrow

  A rare collection of 21 prints of Mahatma Gandhi, taken during the Quit India Movement days of 1942, will hit the auction block in London on Tuesday and is expected to fetch nearly 1,500 pounds. The items at the sale titled "Travel and Photography: India and Beyond" consist of photographs by Mumbai's Jayant R Lalan (11 with photographer's stamp on ...

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  Gandhi memorabilia to go under hammer at Bonhams

  A bronze statue of a seated Buddhist deity presented by Mahatma Gandhi to his Irish friend Emma Harker will go on sale on Tuesday.