Match point… John Vincent reports on the little silver vesta case that helped to strike a blow for the women's suffrage movement.
Allow me to take you back in time to 1903. Lord Balfour is prime minister and the age of gaslight is consigned to history as a new bottle-blowing machine allows mass production of electric light bulbs.
As part of the essential dress code of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, they were adapted to hang from the watch chains of the wealthy male alongside accoutrements such as compasses, silver pencils, toothpick holders, lockets and sovereign cases. As well as silver, vesta cases were made in a range of materials including Bakelite, enamel, copper, base metal and gold.
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