Live Auction 10672Mrs Thatcher - Property from the Collection of The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, LG, OM, FRS
A NAVY BLUE LEATHER HANDBAG
Lot 127

A NAVY BLUE LEATHER HANDBAG

LAUNER LONDON, 1980S

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GBP 15,000

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A NAVY BLUE LEATHER HANDBAG
LAUNER LONDON, 1980S
With oval gilt fastening, adjustable shoulder strap together with Washington University silk scarf
9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Gerald Bodmer, CEO of Launer London, remembers in the early 1980s seeing a rather humorous cartoon of Mrs. Thatcher waving around a rather understated handbag and it suddenly occurred to him that she should be wearing Launer bags. ‘I sent one of our handbagsÉfrom our mainline collection to her with a cutting of the cartoon, and not long afterwards received a personal letter of thanks from Mrs. Thatcher herself, who adored it.’