London: Congress founder Mahatma Gandhi’s golden fountain was auctioned for لاکھ 340,000.
According to the International News Agency, a gold-plated spectacle used by Mahatma Gandhi in the United Kingdom was bought by an American citizen who was eager to collect antiquities within six minutes of the start of the auction for 340,000.
The fountain was mailed to a British auction house called East Bristol Auctions, the owner of the fountain did not realize its importance and even said that if the fountain did not cost, it should be thrown away.
A pair of gold-plated glasses worn by Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has sold in Britain for £260,000 (about 288,000 euros, $340,000), the auction house saidhttps://t.co/NeEiiPi5c2
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It was revealed in a letter received by the auction house company with glasses that Mahatma Gandhi had given this spectacle as a gift to my uncle between 1920 and 1930 when he was employed by British Petroleum in South Africa.
“I almost had a heart attack when I found out that the fountain had sold for 260,000 pounds,” he told an elderly man who sent the fountain to a British auction house. I will share this money with my daughter.