Pendant for Women’s Suffrage

This is an attractive and well-preserved example of a type of jewellery which was worn by many women to indicate their support for the suffrage movement in Britain during the long struggle for votes for women in the early decades of the twentieth century, and at the same time may be evidence of adherence to one particular suffrage society. The inscription on the rear of the pendant suggests it was associated with support for the militant British suffragette Votes For Women campaign (V.F.W.), which was launched in Manchester in 1905.