Auctioning of Sikh historical artifacts.

[dallysingh101 7,009]

3 minutes ago, Redoptics said:

Where are these auctions taking place ?

 

Go to Bonhams website and type in 'Sikh' in the search box. Bond Street by the looks of it? 

[dallysingh101 7,009]

 

A RARE 'GANGA-JAMUNA' MAIL SHIRT

Lahore, first half of the 19th Century

 

 

£ 6,000 - 8,000

€ 7,200 - 9,600

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A STEEL 'TIGER'S CLAW' (BAGH NAKH)

India, 19th/ 20th century

 

 

Sold for £ 1,912 inc. premium

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A GOLD KOFTGARI STEEL MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR)

Lahore, circa 1800

 

 

Sold for £ 1,912 inc. premium

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A GOLD KOFTGARI STEEL MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR)

Lahore, circa 1800

 

 

Sold for £ 4,437 inc. premium

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AN IMPORTANT EMERALD AND SEED-PEARL NECKLACE FROM THE LAHORE TREASURY, WORN BY MAHARANI JINDAN KAUR (1817-63), WIFE OF RANJIT SINGH, THE LION OF THE PUNJAB (1780–1839)
Lahore, first half of the 19th Century
Sold for £ 187,500 inc. premium

[GurjantGnostic 4,644]

Awesome. So when we get all this stuff back?

[GurjantGnostic 4,644]

14 hours ago, dallysingh101 said:

Go to Bonhams website and type in 'Sikh' in the search box. Bond Street by the looks of it? 

Sweet let em know were coming to pick up our stolen heritage. It's not being sold by jewish is it?

Mmm looks like wasps. 

[proactive 4,046]

Looks like looted booty from the Lahore treasury from when the British annexed our country. Possibly descendants of those thieves who have hit on hard times and they are now selling the looted property for money. Those Brits that served in India took a lot of the loot back to the UK. Robert Clive took the equivalent of £46 million back to England, the results of his plundering of south Asia in the mid 1700s. 

With all the woke-ness taking place at this time and talk of righting old wrongs we should be looking to highlight the way Sikh heritage is being sold on the open market and naming and shaming these families who are selling these artefacts as well the auction houses where these are being sold. 

[californiasardar1 858]

Sorry, but why is there so much concern over material artifacts?

Do you guys even believe in Sikhi?

[GurjantGnostic 4,644]

17 minutes ago, californiasardar1 said:

Sorry, but why is there so much concern over material artifacts?

Do you guys even believe in Sikhi?

Nobody cares about the baubles. Part of Dharam Yudh is speaking out against such practices of murder and looting and shaming the origins of modern wealth. Which is very in line with Sikhi. 

[dallysingh101 7,009]

11 hours ago, californiasardar1 said:

Sorry, but why is there so much concern over material artifacts?

Do you guys even believe in Sikhi?

Do you? 

[californiasardar1 858]

1 hour ago, dallysingh101 said:

Do you? 

Please explain what importance these materialistic things have in forming a connection with waheguru.

Read some gurbani sometime and you will begin to understand how meaningless attachment to material things (and other worldly things) is.

[dallysingh101 7,009]

Just now, californiasardar1 said:

Please explain what importance these materialistic things have in forming a connection with waheguru.

Read some gurbani sometime and you will begin to understand how meaningless attachment to material things (and other worldly things) is.

It's cultural. It's evidence that our people weren't the underdeveloped, pendus they've become now. That they appreciated arts and crafts, and patronised skilled people. That they had a degree of civilisation, that has since been lost.  

[californiasardar1 858]

Just now, dallysingh101 said:

It's cultural. It's evidence that our people weren't the underdeveloped, pendus they've become now. That they appreciated arts and crafts, and patronised skilled people. That they had a degree of civilisation, that has since been lost.  

 

Okay, I understand what value this might have to people who feel that nationalism is important. But I think that spiritual development will free one from any need for such validation. At the end of the day, whether or not others believe that we had an "civilization" should not matter.

I think one of the problems with Sikhi is that too many gravitate towards it for reasons of nationalism and communal pride. We should strive the develop spiritually to the point where we are above such things.