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This is an original Margaret Thatcher Spitting Image puppet head which came to me from Michael Dixon who runs the National Puppet Archive and was then loaned to the V & A Museum as part of their ‘Laughing Matters’ exhibition.  She was in a very bad way with lots of her face having split and deteriorated. Her arms were in a terrible state so I undertook a lot of work restoring them to a better finish. There was a lot of slow rebuilding, re-sculpting and reinforcing areas to prevent further damage. I then had to colour match her to maintain the integrity of the piece. She did have to have some new eyelashes though. 

 

I restored Mrs Thatcher to be sympathetic to its authentic condition, maintaining the original features and paint work and ageing the restored areas appropriately.