'She's a hero'
Archived items that used to belong to Maragaret Thatcher have been sold at auction for £15,000 after being saved from a waste disposal site two decades ago.
They were taken home as souvenirs and passed on to his son as he died five years ago, which is what brought them to the auction house in 2023 – where they were sold for a collective total of £15,000 plus buyer’s premium. Noteworthy lots in the auction were a large bronze plaster bust of Ronald Reagan, purportedly presented to Margaret Thatcher by the former President during his state visit in 1982. This sold for £11,700.
It was signed by minister and future Prime Minister of Indonesia Professor Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, and took £1,400 at auction.Two items sold for a further £1,900, in the form of a walnut box bearing a plaque that states it was given to Thatcher during her visit to Bellingham International Airport in March 1991, and a photograph of Thatcher flanked by the 22nd SAS Regiment after storming the Iranian Embassy at the end of a siege in 1980.
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