Antique Gold Pendant in the Colours of the Suffragettes, c. 1910 & Later

Give Women Vote!

Antique Gold Pendant in the Colours of the Suffragettes, c. 1910 & Later

€ 790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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Description

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When the suffragettes fought for more rights for women in the early years of the 20th century, a certain color scheme was soon established to identify them: green, white and purple. One of the leading figures of the women's movement, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, suggested this for symbolic reasons. She wrote in 1908: "Purple, as everyone knows, is a royal color. It stands for the royal blood that runs in the veins of every suffragette, for the instinct of freedom and dignity; white stands for purity in private and public life; green is the color of hope and spring." Only a little later, in 1910, the Union Labor Advocate - the magazine of the National Women's Trade Union League - announced that the colours should also be understood as acronyms. If you take the first letters of the colors green, white and purple, they could also stand for "Give Women Vote" - what the suffragettes were fighting for. This, too, contributed to the popularization of the colour scheme. Women wore ribbons in these colours, clothing or sashes, as well as precious jewellery as a sign of identification. British jewelry companies such as Child & Child, Mappin & Webb, but also the famous department store Liberty sold various pieces of jewellery in the suffragettes' colours in the early years of the 20th century. This pendant features white pearls, a purple amethyst and a green peridot - exactly the colors that were considered the colors of the suffragettes at the time the pendant was created. Its shape as a delicate, symmetrical frame filled with small flowers and leaves corresponds to the fashion of c. 1910. However, a closer look at the details of the workmanship shows that the attached peridot with its setting was probably only added to the pendant at a later date. We do not know whether a peridot was originally attached here; perhaps there was also a pearl or a second amethyst in this position. However, we liked the idea of using the peridot to transform the pendant into a tribute to the history of the suffragettes so much that we would like to offer the pendant here anyway. We discovered it in London.

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Give Women Vote!

€ 790.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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