A bowl and cutlery used by Mahatma Gandhi while in prison in India in the 1940s are expected to fetch more than £60,000 at auction. Bids in the online auction have already started at £55,000, and East Bristol auction house says it believes the culinary items will end up going for somewhere between £60,000 and £80,000. To think he sat down each day and ate from this very bowl, with this very fork, is just amazing.' The bowl is accompanied by three items of cutlery, two spoons and a matching fork carved from wood. The bowl and cutlery forms part of East Bristol's Christmas Collectables Auction which ends on January 10.

Source: Daily Mail January 05, 2021 08:15 UTC