<span style="color: #222222;">A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi and presented as a gift in the 1900s have broken all records for a United Kingdom auction house by selling for Rs. 2.55 crore or 2,60,000 pounds.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The glasses, which were dropped through the letterbox of East Bristol Auctions in Hanham, south-west England, four weeks ago were estimated to fetch between 10,000 pounds and 15,000 pounds. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">But, the online bids for the lot kept multiplying to finally go under the hammer of the six-figure sum.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The unnamed new owner of the spectacles is an elderly man from Mangotsfield, South Gloucestershire in south-west England, who will split the 2,60,000 pounds with his daughter.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The glasses are said to have been in the family of the vendor in England, also an elderly gentleman. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He was told by his father that they were a gift to his uncle when he was working for British Petroleum in South Africa between 1910 and 1930.</span><br />