A good example of a Suffragette necklace set with Peridots (green colour meaning “give”), diamonds (white colour meaning “women”), amethysts (violet colour meaning “votes”). The pretty Edwardian design is suspended from a lovely two colour 15ct gold and platinum chain. These necklaces were worn by sympathisers of the Suffrage movement as a sign to other women of their feelings.<\/p>\n
Mrs Pethick-Lawrence, editor of the weekly newspaper Votes for Women<\/em>, explained the symbolism of the colours in spring 1908: “Purple 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A good example of a Suffragette necklace set with Peridots (green colour meaning “give”), diamonds (white colour meaning “women”), amethysts (violet colour meaning “votes”). The pretty Edwardian design is suspended from a lovely two colour 15ct gold and platinum chain. These necklaces were worn by sympathisers of the Suffrage movement as a sign to other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36588,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[5308],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"1":"product","6":"product_cat-uncategorised","7":"type-antique-necklaces","8":"period-edwardian","9":"material-amethyst","10":"material-diamond","11":"material-gold","12":"material-metals","13":"material-peridot","14":"material-precious-stones","15":"material-semi-precious-stones","16":"collection-suffragette","18":"first","19":"instock","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/36459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=36459"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=36459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}