LONDON: A lipstick print on a napkin left by Britain’s “Iron Lady” prime minister Margaret Thatcher during a visit to the United States has gone on sale online ahead of Valentine’s Day.

The curious collectible — a napkin from the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee — has so far fetched bids of £1,950 ($3,000) on the collectors’ site Picollecta.

Thatcher, who former French president Francois Mitterrand once said had “the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe”, stayed at the hotel in 2000.

She later travelled to give a lecture at the Ohio Theatre and the website said the napkin was “retrieved from Mrs Thatcher’s waste basket in her dressing room by a theatre employee”.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2015

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