This listing is for three ANTIQUE advertising "Toffee Hammers"

NO PROVENANCE but guaranteed 100% Genuine

1 Advertising Blue Bird Toffee a brand of toffee, founded in Hunnington, near Birmingham, England, in 1898 by Harry Vincent

1 Advertising Sharp's Toffee Edward Sharp started making confectionery in the 1880s. The iconic Macaw was introduced in 1915 with the slogan "Sharp's Toffee Speaks for Itself". Sharp's became the world's largest toffee manufacturer

1 Advertising Walker's Toffee Walker's Nonsuch Ltd. is a manufacturer of toffee based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK. It was founded in 1894

A toffee hammer is a very small hammer designed for breaking up sheets or slabs of hard toffee, such as bonfire toffee, into small pieces suitable for consumption

A toffee hammer is sometimes included as a novelty item in gift packs produced by toffee manufacturers

Toffee hammers were used by suffragettes, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union, for breaking windows as a form of protest during their campaign for votes for women.

A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom

The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience

In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU

Women had won the right to vote in several countries by the end of the 19th century; in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all women over the age of 21