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Find Out MoreAn impressive example of a Suffragette pendant that was made circa 1910. It is a very pretty flower burst design composed of a peridotA variety of chrysolite. It is the gem of variety of olivine. The colour is generally a warm olive or yellowish green.
in the centre with eight flower sprigs set with naturalA natural stone is called such because it has not been subjected to any treatments. split pearls and amethysts and a baleA component of certain types of jewellery, mostly necklaces, that is used to attach a pendant or stone to a chain. set with further natural split pearls. It is 15ct62.5% pure gold (or 625 parts pure gold and 375 parts other metals). Popular during the Victorian, Edwardian and Art Deco eras but was discontinued in the mid-1930s. gold. The meanings of the stones and pearls are, Peridot (Green colour meaning “give”), Pearls ( White colour meaning “women”), and Amethysts (Violet colour meaning “votes”). This pendant would have been worn by sympathisers of the Suffrage movement as a sign to other women of their feelings.
Mrs Pethick-Lawrence, editor of the weekly newspaper Votes for Women, explained the symbolism of the colours in spring 1908: “Purple/red as everyone knows is the royal colour. It stands for the royal blood that flows in the veins of every suffragette, the instinct of freedom and dignity; white stands for purity in private and public life; green is the colour of hope and the emblem of spring.” In other words, she said, the colours stood for freedom and dignity, purity and hope.
Unmarked, tested to 15ct gold.
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