A signed vintage photograph of Mahatma Gandhi may bring USD 10,000 at auction.

BOSTON, Feb 26 A signed vintage photograph of Mahatma Gandhi, strolling close by Madan Mohan Malaviya, is relied upon to bring USD 10,000 at a bartering in the US.

Signed in fountain pen, "M K Gandhi," the uncommon photograph was taken after the second session of India's Round Table Conference in London in September 1931.

The invert of photograph bears two Associated Press of Great Britain copyright stamps, as well as collector's ink notations identifying Malaviya and the date.

The photograph dates to a period in which Gandhi, suffering from pain in his right thumb, picked to write with his left hand, a transitory bother that kept going from August 8-December 19, 1931, as indicated by US-based RR Auctions.

As the delegate acting on behalf of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi went to the second session of the British-composed Round Table Conference, a three-part conference series held in London from 1930 to 1932, with the point of examining the progressing sacred changes in India.

Malaviya, who had formerly been president of the Congress and assumed a critical part in the Gandhi-drove non-president, went along with him as a president for a free India.

The bidding for the photo ends on March 7.