WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 5 MAY 2018

History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 5 MAY 2018 AT 11AM 174 May, Paul. Mrs Thatcher’s Bag. Quartet Books, London, 1978. A folder imitating a 1970s navy blue Lauder handbag, as favoured by Margaret Thatcher, containing a Margaret Thatcher mask, a cut-out Margaret Thatcher dress-up doll, a record: ‘Maggie’s Song’ and ‘The Song of the Silent Majority’, a pamphlet: ‘Managing, A Guide to Modern Etiquette’ by Margaret Hilda Th*tcher’; ‘a tasteful poster adorned with Mrs Thatcher’s Pearls of Wisdom’; and ‘a souvenir postcard to impress your less fortunate friends’. Published by Quartet Books, a socialist publishing house, during the early years of Thatcher’s leadership of the Tory party, Mrs Thatcher’s Handbag reveals how polarising a figure she was even before she became Prime Minister. The ‘handbag was marketed as a do-it-yourself guide to becoming what the display wrapper around the handbag claimed: M*RG*RET HILD* TH*TCHER writes, ‘I have gathered together in this stylish handbag a most useful collection of practical tips so that even the most deprived of you who have the will and the enterprise can cultivate those exclusive qualities which have made me – and can make YOU – a model Tory lady.’ Estimate €150-€200 approx (£130-£170 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 174 175 Gorbachev, Mikhail. Perestroika. Harper and Row, New York, 1987, first edition, dust jacket in mylar, signed to the title page in blue felt- tip pen by Mikhail Gorbachev. Estimate €200-€300 approx (£170-£260 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 175