Here is a spectacular antique ring that not only looks amazing with so much intricate detail, but is also a suffragette ring making it speak volumes about what it represented.
Made in 18 carat gold in Birmingham in 1899, the suffragette movement was not only so important in helping women get equal rights including the right to vote, but helped cement in history the names of people such as Millicent Fawcet and Emmeline Pankhurst, who were both so important in the movement, making suffragette jewellery not only so beautiful, but so historically important.
The suffragette movement was identified by the colours green, white and violet as can be seen in this ring, with this ring being set with emeralds for the green, pearls for the white and garnets for the violet. Not only do these colour work so well together, but the detail in this ring is truly amazing as is the exquisite hand engraving on the band.
This ring will certainly be admired for all the right reasons, and is sure to be loved and admired by all who see it.
Stock# ET723
Hallmarked: Birmingham 1899
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Antique suffragette ring made in Birmingham in 1899
A brief history of the suffragette movement:
Suffragettes were members of women’s organisations that started in late 19th century who fought for the right for women to vote in elections. Taking firm root when in 1897 the National Union of Women’s Suffrage was founded by Millicent Fawcet who believed in peaceful protest and later in 1903 when Emmeline Pankhurst founded the British Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement. This later association became more vocal in their protesting, with many women being arrested and going to prison, starting hunger strikes and even burning down churches.
The suffragette campaign was halted when World War I broke out in 1914 and Emmeline Pankhurst instructed the Suffragettes to stop their now often violent campaign and support the government and its war effort. After the war, the Representation of the People Act 1918 gave the vote to women over the age of 30 who met certain property qualifications and then ten years later women gained electoral equality with men when the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928 gave all women the vote at age 21.
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