Hope, purity, dignity

Tribute to the suffragette movement; vintage pendant with amethysts, pearls & peridots, ca. 2000

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Tribute to the suffragette movement; vintage pendant with amethysts, pearls & peridots, ca. 2000

Description

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The history of equal rights for men and women is a history of hard struggles. Until today, progress has always been made only in small steps, which often had to be laboriously wrested from men. The early 20th century was a particularly turbulent period in this struggle, when women took to the streets in large numbers, especially in Great Britain and the United States, but later also in Germany, to finally win the right to vote for themselves. In Great Britain, the fighting women were called suffragettes, from the French suffrage = choice. They protested and did not shy away from physical acts and hunger strikes, frustrated by the immobility of male-dominated politics. The longer the movement was active, the more female supporters also publicly declared their support. A true fashion emerged. Then, in 1908, colours were officially established to symbolize the women's movement: Green, white and purple were to signify hope, purity and dignity. In London, the big department stores sold dresses and sashes, hat pins, bars of soap and also jewellery in the colours of the movement. A tribute to the jewellery of this fashion is now here. It is a pendant bearing the three typical colours of the British Women's Movement, three colours that were to indicate the approach of a new era of freedom. The design is in shapes that were a great fashion in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century. A wreath of small flowers is provided movable pendulums. The four-petaled flowers they richly set with seed pearls and hold in their center each a peridot. Also in the center pendulums a peridot, while an amethyst in the colour of dignity is movably suspended from the design, which thus recalls the long struggle for equal rights, which finally, in 1918, with the introduction of the right to vote for women, was not yet over. The pendant, which found its way to us from London, was probably created in recent years and can be worn immediately with its matching gold chain.

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Demantoids are a special form of garnet, which may be surprising at first. Known are of all the deep dark red of the pyrope garnet from the sites of Bohemia as well as the almandine, which convinces in a red tone with a fine admixture of blue. But also the demantoid with its intensive green is a garnet. It was first found in the Russian Ural Mountains in 1855 and was initially known as "Ural emerald". Carl Fabergé, for example, used it in numerous works for the Russian court, and it also enjoyed great popularity in Great Britain around the turn of the century.

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Hope, purity, dignity

€ 890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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