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Spitting Image puppets net thousands

Spitting Image puppets of Margaret Thatcher and Gordon Brown have sold for almost £10,000.

The latex puppets were auctioned off at a memorabilia sale at London auction house Bonham’s yesterday.

The former Tory leader was bought for the Imperial War Museum for £5,040; while the Prime-Minister-in-waiting fetched £4,800 from a private buyer.

Brown’s puppet fetched roughly what was expected, but Thatcher’s puppet had a guide price of only around £3,000.

Published: 21 Jun 2007

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