rare women's suffrage chocolate box Circa 1916-1920 (07/16/2009)

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rare women's suffrage chocolate box Circa 1916-1920

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Sold Date: 07/16/2009
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Advertising

This is a miracle of preservation. That this paper box has survived for nigh on ninety years so intact is just astounding! The Chocolates were almost certainly produced as a fundraiser by some branch of the NAWSA in the fight for women's suffrage. Since the lid mentions no specific organization, this was probably an item soldby numerous sympathetic clubs and groups that raised money to fight for the NineteenthAmendment (passed in August of 1920). That would place this box between 1916 and 1920. The artwork is gorgeous! So gallant and regal, the women each portray a glorious sense of nineteen-twenties propriety and independence. I would love to taste one of the chocolates that came in this box. It may be my imagination when I peer into this delicate lace-paper-lined, hand folded memory of an age gone by, but I swear I can smell a hint of the sweet cocoa flavor that these fine women savored like their taste for freedom and equality with men.. It makes me almost weep. This keepsake may be priceless, as I have been unable to find any reference to either the Roach Tisdale label name nor the "Votes for Women Chocolates" title. Maybe Roach and Tisdale didn't know squat about chocolate and folded. So, considering all the grassroots microcosms of activity that must have been popping at that time, this may very well be a one-of-a-kind.
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