Swiss manufacture for the Indian market, circa 1930s–1940s. An open-face pocket watch with its original signed white enamel dial printed "WEST END WATCH CO." and "AFTAB", a subsidiary seconds register, stylised Arabic numerals with an outer red 24-hour chapter ring, blued steel hands, a stem-wound crown, and a plain white-metal case. The watch survives in an untouched state of preservation, retaining the original patina and evidence of long use expected of an object valued principally for...
Estimate
Rs 20,00,000 - 30,00,000
A devotional rosary of 108 beads with two khadi prayer pouches, personally gifted by Mahatma Gandhi to Anand T Hingorani, accompanied by an autograph letter from Gandhi referencing the rosary itself. Sevagram Ashram, India, February 1945.
Estimate
Rs 30,00,000 - 40,00,000
A preserved devotional and archival group of hand-spun khadi yarn personally prepared and gifted by Mahatma Gandhi to Anand T Hingorani between 1934 and 1945, comprising approximately 10–12 preserved slivers, mini-skeins and braided strands of hand-spun cotton yarn surviving within a sequence of contemporary manuscript wrappers, postal packets, typed archival envelopes and devotional mounts retained by the Hingorani family.Anand T. ...
Estimate
Rs 40,00,000 - 60,00,000
A portable folding peti charkha (box spinning wheel) of stained teak, incorporating a collapsable spinning mechanism with drive wheel, spindle assemblies and fitted internal accessory compartments, enclosed within its original hinged carrying case with iron handle and clasp. The interior retains its original spinning accessories, including spindle assemblies still wound with hand-spun cotton thread, together with loose-spun yarn and raw cotton fibres that, according to the...
Estimate
Rs 50,00,000 - 70,00,000
A group of two final communications addressed to Anand T Hingorani in January 1948, concerning renunciation, suffering, deafness, duty, spiritual discipline, and the proper conduct of a Gandhian worker during the closing weeks of Gandhi's life.
Estimate
Rs 35,00,000 - 45,00,000
SHIV BALAK BISEN (on behalf of Mahatma Gandhi)
Estimate
Rs 10,00,000 - 15,00,000