Colours of Freedom

Magnificent Suffragette Necklace with Amethyst, Peridot & Pearls, England c. 1910

€ 2,190.00 ^*

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Magnificent Suffragette Necklace with Amethyst, Peridot & Pearls, England c. 1910

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

A few years ago, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in Germany. Decided in the November Revolution of 1918, women were able to exercise their right to vote at national level for the first time in the elections to the German National Assembly on January 19, 1919. However, the road to equal rights for men and women was a rocky one, with much blood and tears shed along the way. This social change was made possible because strong women joined forces and took an organized stand against prevailing injustice. Central figures in the fight for equal rights were the so-called suffragettes (from English/French suffrage, "choice"), middle-class women who, as radical women's rights activists in Great Britain and the USA, primarily offered passive resistance to male supremacy, but did not shy away from disrupting official events and public hunger strikes. Their distinguishing marks included certain colors, namely green, white and purple. This necklace is a particularly splendid testimony to this period. Set in slightly reddish gold, we see a green peridot, white pearls and violet amethysts combined in a colorful arrangement. The colors of this setting are the colors that the women of the suffragette movement chose as their symbolic colors. It is no coincidence that the first letters of the colors can be read as an acronym: Green (green), white (white) and violet (violet) form a sentence that encapsulates everything the suffragettes fought for: "Give Women the Vote". The shape and workmanship of the necklace date it to around 1910. It is also made from the typical British alloy of fifteen-carat gold (corresponding to a fineness of 625/000). We encounter this alloy in many Victorian and Edwardian pieces of jewelry, but it was only used until 1932, after which its use was banned. This is also an indication of the period of origin of the necklace. We discovered the necklace in London. It is a wonderful piece of jewelry and at the same time an impressive testimony to the hard road to equal rights for men and women.

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€ 2,190.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

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