Antique Victorian Suffragette Ring Tourmaline Peridot

Product Details

This fabulous 18ct Yellow Gold Victorian ring represents the Suffragette period - Circa 1900.

Suffragettes liked to be depicted as feminine. Their jewellery was chosen to counter the stereotypes put forward by opponents that they were mannish or shrieking.

Give Women Votes, Green is for give, White is for women and Violet is for votes.

The Peridot is a stone of lightness and beauty and was believed to be a stone of springtime by ancients who considered it a gift from mother nature.

Tourmaline is the gemological name for an important group of complex gem-quality boron silicate minerals. The gemstones can be found in all colours of the rainbow. Tourmaline is also considered to be one of today's most versatile gemstones.

The central Tourmaline is approx. 1ct in size graduating out to smaller gemstones.

Sometimes just two colours were used together during the Suffragette period, it wasn’t always three.

This is a genuine Victorian ring not a reproduction.

The ring has been tested as 18ct Yellow Gold.

Steeped in history, it is truly a spectacular ring.

It weighs 3 grams.

Measures R in the UK or 8 ¾USA - Can be sized, we offer this service for free, it takes approximately one week.

The face of this ring measures 21mm across x 8mm down, at the widest part.

Stands 4mm off the finger.

Excellent condition all round.