auction Sikh Guru's body armour

Another thing is that the section being sold is part of a four piece set. I wonder if the seller has the other 3 pieces and is trying to sell it bit by bit to make a higher profit.
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Sikh guru’s armour is safe, says Patiala royal family

April 2nd, 2008 - 10:00 pm ICT by admin - Email This Post

Patiala/Amritsar, April 2 (IANS) The erstwhile royal family of Patiala has disputed the claim that a steel armour put up for auction by Sotheby’s belonged to the Sikhs’ revered 10th guru, Gobind Singh. Preneet Kaur, Patiala’s member of parliament, Wednesday told reporters that the original armour of the guru was kept in the safe custody of the gurudwara at the New Moti Bagh palace of the erstwhile royal family.
Preneet Kaur is the wife of former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh - the scion of one of the most famous royal families of Punjab.

“The armour has been kept in the safe custody in the gurudwara here and is being given reverence. We are lucky that such an important part of Sikh history is still with us,” Preneet Kaur said.
She demanded that the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) - the apex organisation that looks after Sikh religious affairs - order a probe into how the other armour, which is being auctioned by Sotheby’s, reached Britain in the first place.

SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar was Wednesday livid with the London-based Sotheby’s going ahead with the auction of the armour April 9.

“We have written to our prime minister and Britain’s prime minister. We have also written to Britain’s religious heads that Sotheby’s should be stopped from auctioning anything that is part of any religion’s history,” Makkar told a regional TV channel.

Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-sikhi-sikhism/20777-auction-sikh-gurus-body-armour.html
A Sotheby’s spokesman said Tuesday that the auction house never claimed that the armour belonged to the 10th Sikh guru. He went on to add that had the armour really been that of the guru, the auction house would have priced it much more than 10,000 pounds that it was demanding.
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=20777

“How dare the auction house say that they would have sold our guru’s armour for a higher price? They have no right to sell anything that is part of Sikh history,” Makkar said.

The SGPC has already constituted a team of experts who will go to London shortly to find out to whom owned the armour that is now being auctioned.

Even as Sikhs in Punjab and elsewhere protested against the auction, some Sikh organizations said they would bid for the armour if Sotheby’s went ahead with the auction.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal also wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, Monday to get the auction stopped.

Sikh guru’s armour is safe, says Patiala royal family - Thaindian News

Personally, I am pleased that SGPC is going to explore the provenance of the armour to be auctioned. But what do you forum jios make of this story?

Hi,
I would really appreciate if some one is coming front to stop the auction.

So would I appreciate it. I can't tell from the news stories at this point.

YA right but atleast some people are trying to stop it. so its not tht we are taking it lightly. We are SIKHs we will ty are level best to do everything.