Suffragettes

Pictured here is a page of vignettes (stamps not used for postage) showing various scenes from the Suffragette Movement.

The stamps were printed in Germany, likely before or during the war, but are printed in English. This may reflect the British influence on the Women’s Rights Movement in Germany in the early 20th century, as reflected in the opening of Germany’s first club for accomplished women, the Lyceum Club, in Berlin in 1905. The club was opened in Berlin by the founder of the London Lyceum Club, Constance Smedley, together with Maria von Bunsen, a German writer, painter and supporter of the arts.