Video: The famous Margaret Thatcher bag is up for auction
2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00
A very interesting ladies' accessory with a truly aristocratic pedigree is put up for auction by the auction house Christie's. This is the bag of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This accessory is known as the "scary" bag.
The sale will take place as part of a charity auction organized by the auction house Christie's. For the black Asprey bag it is planned to gain about 165 thousand dollars.
As Agence France-Presse reminds, it was this bag that Thatcher, being the prime minister, often took with her to official events. In particular, the bag was spotted at the meetings of the "iron lady" with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
The press endowed Margaret Thatcher's bag with the ability to establish power and impose will. In connection with this accessory, British journalists even introduced a specific term - handbagging - which can be translated as "bagging".
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, a former Conservative leader, served as British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990.
A similar definition was applied to the ministers who inherited from Thatcher. In the early 80s, cartoons were also popular in which the British prime minister beat various politicians with her bag.
Connoisseurs at each visit of Thatcher to this or that institution by the bag could determine the mood of the imperious lady and her intentions. The prime minister's favorite handbags were deliberately feminine, with short handles and a small shape, which only emphasized her masculinity as a politician.
The English press spent a lot of time analyzing Margaret Thatcher's bags. Excerpt from a June 1982 article in The Times: “… She generally considers the Foreign Office to be the worst. She cannot visit the institution without dazzling its inhabitants with her handbag …"
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