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Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture
Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture
Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture
Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture
Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture
Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture
Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture
Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture
Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture
Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture

Antique Beer Mug Anti-Women's Rights Suffrage Era Slogan Coverture

$ 52.77

Availability: 22 in stock
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Topic: Suffrage
  • Condition: Used
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Type: Mug

    Description

    This listing is for a very old
    beer
    mug, probably dating from the mid to late 1800's, or possibly even into the early 1900's.
    It appears to be a rare surviving relic and sobering reminder of what women were up against in the long and hard struggle for women's rights. I'm guessing this belonged to an American, but could also have come from another English speaking country, possibly the UK.
    The
    slogan, which reads "
    ONLY A MARRIED MAN HAS A LEGAL RIGHT TO HOLD HIS OWN"
    refers to coverture, and opposes
    married women's property rights, or the right to own and control their own income.
    Laws
    that fully ended coverture in the U.S.
    (
    Married Women's Property Acts)
    only
    came gradually over time, were
    on a state by state basis,
    and in piecemeal
    (still no federal law exists). Into the late
    1800's there were still roughly one third of the states that
    had not
    protected
    married woman with a right to control their own earnings. Fortunately, women, along with everyone else, can thank the 14th Amendment for coming to the rescue and protecting them from coverture worming its way back into state law. As recently as the 1970's there was STILL a last hold out state of Louisiana with it's very unequal "Head and Master" law.
    As to condition, the handle on the mug was broken and repaired ( glued back together) in four places.
    That wasn't a professional job, but seems secure and looks like it will hold up.
    It shows its age and heavy past use with allover crazing and staining from liquids seeping into the crazing.
    Mug measures approximately 4 1/2" height and bottom has a factory number mark of 12 under glaze.
    This appears to be a lone surviving relic and I haven't had any luck finding another just like it.