US unwraps Bush’s gift-box: a $550 marble tabletop from India,a $2,000 rug from Pak

• Manmohan Singh gifted Bush a $550 round marble tabletop inlaid with coral,malachite,lapis lazuli,mother of pearl,turquoise and agate flowers held on a wooden base when he visited him in September 2004.

•Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf gave gifts worth $2,300 to Bush,including a dark table ornately inlaid with bone,an antique muzzle loader held in a wooden shadow box,a traditional Pakistani coat with a stain ornate design and a cream Pakistani hat. Musharraf gifted a $300 silver ornate bowl to the First Lady while Mrs Sehba Musharraf brought Mrs Bush $500 worth of jewellery.

•King Abdullah II of Jordan gifted Bush weapons worth $22,000 including a Maynard revolver and a Sharps 4 barrel pocket pistol.

Gift tally,2005

•Manmohan Singh gifted Bush a sterling Ravissant hinged box engraved with Mughal designs—a replica of the Diwan-e-Aam in the Red Fort at Delhi.

• Natwar Singh,then External Affairs Minister,gifted Bush a $750 Ravissant urn stamped with intricate floral design when he met Bush in April,2005.

• Musharraf gifted Bush a $336 hardcover book titled,Sadequain: The Holy Sinner.

• Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai gifted Bush a $8,000 beige rug with maroon,black and brown diamond print. His wife Zeenat Karzai gifted the First Lady a traditional Afghan dress embroidered with ornate gold patterns and intricate seed beadwork,a silk shawl and a green-and-gold polyester shawl with ornate sleeves worth $375. President Karzai also gave gifts worth $1,100,including a lapis lazuli candelabra and a knotted silk pile rug to the First Lady.

•The Sultan of Brunei brought with him gifts worth over $2,400,including silver picture frames and trays,Faberge crystal etched candleholders,a leather dog bed,a brown alligator leather thermos and a brown leather covered trunk among other things.

•Valdimir Putin gifted Bush collectables worth near $900,including photographs of former US Presidents,a silver horse shoe inlaid with aquamarine stones and several silver tone coins and artwork.

2006

•Manmohan Singh gifted Bush a $1,200 handcrafted,silver enamelled bald eagle perched on a rock.

•A P J Abdul Kalam brought Bush a $30 silk rug while Andhra CM Y.S. Rajashekhar Reddy and Andhra Pradesh Governor Rameshwar Thakur showered Bush with gifts worth $13,350,including a silver filigree chariot and two horses mounted on a velvet base and with intricate sandalwood artwork.

•India’s Rajya Sabha MP Nirmala Deshpande gifted Bush a spinning wheel,a bust of Mahatma Gandhi and books on the Mahatma worth $600.

•Musharraf gifted Bush a $2,000 woolen rug. On another occasion,he also gifted Bush a $425 four-panelled hinged screen. Mrs Sehba Musharraf gifted the First Lady sapphire jewellery,silk lengths and cashmere pashmina worth $680.

•Pakistan PM Shaukat Aziz gifted a horse saddle and a horse blanket worth $1,000. Mrs. Rukhsana Aziz gifted the First Lady desk accessories,assorted silk lengths and a book worth $700.

•Hamid Karzai gave gifts worth $9,000,including lapis lazuli mosaic bowls and urns. On another occasion,he gifted Bush a woven Afghan rug worth $4,800.

• Japan’s PM Junichiro Koizumi gifted Bush an electric-powered bicycle,posters and CDs worth $1,400. Koizumi brought desk accessories and jewellery worth nearly $500 for the First Lady.

• Chinese President Hu Jintao brought gifts worth $400,a porcelain-carved charger and a rosewood charger-holder.

• Italian President Silvio Berlusconi gifted a $454 framed photograph of Laura Bush,Barbara Bush and himself to the President.

•French President Jacques Chirac gifted Bush a $640 porcelain espresso set and a sterling silver tray.

2007

•Indian NSA M.K. Narayanan brought a $325 inlaid multi-coloured octagon box for Condoleeza Rice.

•Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud gifted the First Lady jewellery worth $85,000 and a desert artwork worth $10,000.

•Tony Blair brought Bush a $450 porcelain wedgewood bowl with black floral border and the words: “Am I not a Man and a Brother?”. Cherie Blair brought for the First Lady a $1,206 Tanner Krolle leather handbag.

•Karzai came with a blue Lapis Lazuli bowl worth $3,860 and a black-and-gold traditional Afghan vest with white ties,and a traditional Afghan pants suit worth $135.

•Jordan king Abdullah II bin Al Hussein and queen Rania Al Abdullah gifted Bush a silver mosaic box,a book on the mosaics of Jordan,vases etc.

• French president Nicholas Sarkozy brought gifts worth $11,350.