{"id":184,"date":"2026-08-08T19:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gozotiques.com.mt\/blog\/a-silver-and-enamel-suffragette-brooch-circa-1900-jewellery-as-political-statement\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:11:58","slug":"a-silver-and-enamel-suffragette-brooch-circa-1900-jewellery-as-political-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gozotiques.com.mt\/blog\/a-silver-and-enamel-suffragette-brooch-circa-1900-jewellery-as-political-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Silver and Enamel Suffragette Brooch, Circa 1900: Jewellery as Political Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Or: when wearing the wrong colour combination was itself a form of protest<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gozotiques.com.mt\/images\/source\/P1010003_1024x768__1_.jpg\" alt=\"Silver and Enamel Arts and Crafts Suffragette Brooch\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Women&#8217;s Social and Political Union adopted purple, white, and green as its official colours in 1908, purple for dignity, white for purity, green for hope, and suffragette-sympathetic jewellers began producing pieces using exactly that palette almost immediately. This Arts and Crafts brooch, English, circa 1900, sits at the edge of that movement: silver and enamel work in the handmade, unpretentious style the Arts and Crafts movement favoured, a deliberate rejection of mass-produced Victorian jewellery in favour of visible, honest craftsmanship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arts and Crafts jewellery and the suffrage movement shared more than a historical moment, they shared an underlying philosophy: both were reactions against an establishment seen as ornamental, hollow, and resistant to genuine change. A woman choosing to wear a piece like this wasn&#8217;t just making an aesthetic choice, in the specific political climate of the period, it could be read as a visible, public statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why this piece matters beyond its craftsmanship.<\/strong> Genuine suffrage-era jewellery is a real, if narrow, category of political and social history that happens to also be wearable. It sits at the intersection of design history and a specific, documented civil rights movement, which gives a piece like this a layer of significance that a purely decorative brooch from the same period wouldn&#8217;t carry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What to look for.<\/strong> Hand-finished, slightly irregular enamel work and a visible hallmark consistent with the period, both present here, are what distinguish genuine Arts and Crafts pieces from later, more mechanically produced imitations of the style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This piece is part of a small, genuinely personal collection of antique jewellery, gathered over years rather than acquired for resale. <a href=\"https:\/\/gozotiques.com.mt\/blog\/product\/silver-and-enamel-arts-and-crafts-suffragette-brooch-english-circa-1900\/\">See the Suffragette brooch on Gozotiques<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or: when wearing the wrong colour combination was itself a form of protest The Women&#8217;s Social and Political Union adopted purple, white, and green as its official colours in 1908, purple for dignity, white for purity, green for hope, and suffragette-sympathetic jewellers began producing pieces using exactly that palette almost immediately. 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