RARE ENGLISH BUTTON "MEN'S LEAGUE FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE."
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Winning Bid:
$662.86 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bids:
10
Bidding Ended:
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:00:00 AM)
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Auction:
Auction #203 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1428 in auction 203
Value Code:
H - $200 to $400 Help Icon
Item Description
1.25" with text around floral design. Backpaper from London maker reading "Manufactured By The Merchants' Portrait Co. Kentish Town Road, London, N.W." Design is a hair off center to the right and with small bit of air under the celluloid but piece is still essentially Mint as made. Button dates from around 1907 when several progressive intellectuals including Henry Nevison, Laurence Housman, Charles Corbett, Hugh Franklin, and 38 others formed the Men's League For Women's Suffrage "With the object of bringing to bear upon the movement the electoral power of men. To obtain for women the vote on the same terms as those on which it is now, or may in the future, be granted to men." The same year, at a bi-election in Wimbledon, Bertrand Russell, stood as a Suffragist candidate. Also see item #204 an enamel and brass pin for the "Women's Charity Club" picturing Mrs. Benjamin Harrison.
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