Antique necklace in the colors of the suffragettes with amethyst, pearls & peridot, around 1910

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Antique necklace in the colors of the suffragettes with amethyst, pearls & peridot, around 1910

€ 1,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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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 flows 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 colors should also be understood as an acronym. 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 bows in these colors, clothing or sashes, as well as precious jewellery as a sign of identification. British jewelry companies such as Child & Child and Mappin & Webb, as well as the famous department store Liberty, sold a wide variety of jewelry in the suffragettes' colors in the early years of the 20th century. This necklace 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 necklace was created. The round shape of the pendant, formed from delicate lines and filled with laurel leaves, corresponds to the fashion around 1910. The chain is firmly attached to the pendant and is most likely still the original chain. We discovered this exciting pendant in London.

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€ 1,290.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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