East Bristol Auctions has told Sky News that the spectacles could fetch 'way more' than £15,000 when they go under the hammer.
A pair of Mahatma Gandhi's glasses are going under the hammer after they were discovered in an envelope hanging halfway out of an auction house's letterbox for two days.
Staff at East Bristol Auctions told Sky News that a man"popped them through" last Friday, but because they do not open at weekends, the"iconic" spectacles belonging to the Indian civil rights leader were not found until the following Monday. "A colleague of mine picked them up, ripped open the envelope and found a brief note inside saying, 'These glasses belonged to Gandhi, give me a call,'" said Andrew Stowe, one of the auctioneers.He continued:"I read the note, carried on with the morning duties, and then around lunchtime I thought, 'Well let's give this gentleman a call, let's see what the story is.
"A few hours later, we were digging around and doing some research and we discovered that they are a very important historical find. I phoned the gentleman back ... his exact words were 'if they're no good, just throw them away'."I told him I thought they were worth £15,000, and I think he nearly fell off his chair."
Mr Stowe says the glasses belonged to the seller's uncle, who worked in South Africa around the same time Gandhi was there - between 1910 and 1930.
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