Despite Protests, Gandhi Auction Is to Go On

By Jennifer 8. Lee AND Robert Mackey

Despite direct appeals from the Indian government and a last-minute stay from an Indian court, an auction of personal items of Mohandas K. Gandhi's -- including his sandals, bowl, watch and spectacles -- is scheduled to go ahead as planned on Thursday in New York City, the auction house said Wednesday morning.

"It's still planned, still going ahead," said Julien Schaerer, director of the New York watch department of Antiquorum, a leading watch auctioneer. Antiquorum is handling the auction in part because the possessions include a 1910 sterling Zenith pocket watch belonging to Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement.


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