Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 6:51:26 GMT 7
An auction selling clothes and artefacts from Margaret Thatcher's prime ministerial career has raised more than £3 million.
In a sale hailed as historic by auctioneers at Christie's in London, the collection of 185 items belonging to the Iron Lady smashed expected bids by thousands of pounds each.
The top selling lot was a model of an American bald eagle awarded to the former premier in 1984 with the message: "W ith best wishes from Ronald Reagan." It was bought by an online buyer for £266,500 after it was expected to fetch a maximum bid of £8,000.
Second was her red Morocco dispatch box embossed with the cypher of HM Queen Elizabeth II, the words "Prime Minister" and numbered I, which was sold for £242,500 and attracted bidders from as far as South Korea and Malta.
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In a sale hailed as historic by auctioneers at Christie's in London, the collection of 185 items belonging to the Iron Lady smashed expected bids by thousands of pounds each.
The top selling lot was a model of an American bald eagle awarded to the former premier in 1984 with the message: "W ith best wishes from Ronald Reagan." It was bought by an online buyer for £266,500 after it was expected to fetch a maximum bid of £8,000.
Second was her red Morocco dispatch box embossed with the cypher of HM Queen Elizabeth II, the words "Prime Minister" and numbered I, which was sold for £242,500 and attracted bidders from as far as South Korea and Malta.
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