Own a Bit of Gandhi
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This stuff should be going into a museum!
Peace activist Mahatma Gandhi's trademark leather sandals, steel-rimmed glasses, his watch, and a bowl and plate he used will be auctioned in New York on March 5th.
According to reports, the Zenith pocket watch dates to about 1910 and was given by Gandhi to his beloved grandniece Abha Gandhi, in whose arms he died when he was assassinated in January 1948.
The Gandhi items are expected to make the auction house somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000 - but likely much more.
Hope whoever successfully bids on the stuff will be inclined to share it with the world rather than just locking it up in a vault somewhere!
[Image via AP Photo.]
Posted: February 12, 2009 at 8:00 pm
What do you think a used tissue would go for?
uhhm… yeeeahhh. because i really want some old dude's glasses….
what?!?!
1st
well 5th , that is so before westerday!! daily mail uk is the best
Don't go wearing them sandals….betcha he had athletes foot.
Seriously??? Those are historical! You've gotta be kidding me!
he was great, but i dont want his old glasses
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Aww look, he's doing his 'british teeth' with orange peel impression!
Perez- you misspelled Gandhi in the title of this post.
I'M GONNA BUY ALL THAT JUNK AND SHOVE IT UP MY BUMBUM. THEN I'LL BE SMART.
It should be shared with the public. Very interesting figure.
If museums though it worthy they would buy them. Not that I am saying they're not, but they can't buy/display everything.
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It's Gandhi not Ghandi you stupid fuck.
How much for his loin cloth?
Fuck perez is its GHANDI not gandhi and to all you people whom are like "i dont want an old guys glasses" He is an historical figure not some old guy like you think. Fucking look him up. Anyway that shit should be sold for millions.
that should go in a museum!!! what the hell…isn't there a museum dedicated to him yet?
This sick old freak needed his a** whooped/
That's sad! Why are they selling his personal belongings and what happened to the grandaugher?
for all of you who are saying these awful comments, stop. he is one of the greatest and inspirational historical figures ever, and he deserves a lot more than your ignorant and disgusting comments, and other ignorant and disgusting people selling off his belongings that should be in a museum. he deserves much more than that, for he was a contributor of great change to our world. im sorry that you're all so uneducated and immoral that you can't remotely recognize that.