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Gandhi's glasses fetch over $340,000 at auction

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Gandhi's glasses fetch over $340,000 at auction

Gandhi's glasses fetch over $340,000 at auction

A pair of glasses belonging to India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi sold at a UK auction for £260,000 (340,327 USD) on Friday (August 21), weeks after an envelope containing them was left hanging out of an auction house's letterbox.


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