Andrew Dickens Afternoons

A pair of spectacles thought to belong to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi are set to be auctioned for more than $19,000 -- after being left "hanging out" of a letterbox on a busy industrial estate.Around four weeks ago on a Monday morning, auctioneer Andy Stowe headed into work and was checking the letterboxes at his office on an industrial estate in Bristol, southwest England."I saw an envelope hanging out of our letterbox -- really, literally, just hanging out," he told CNN.When a colleague opened the envelope, they discovered the unusual contents -- a pair of gold-rimmed, circular spectacles."They had a little note in there saying 'These belonged to Gandhi, and my uncle was given them,'" he said.Stowe told CNN he called the phone number on the note, and traced the item's seller, who was an elderly man who lived locally.The man told Stowe that the glasses had been passed to him from his uncle, who told him they were given to him by Gandhi while he was employed in South Africa."The uncle [was] work