$10,350
Cartier, New York, squelette, entered in the registers in 1929 Fine and elegant 18K gold, enamel and platinum rock crystal diamond-set keyless skeleton watch Rock crystal with diamond set band and platinum how, the back engraved with the initials "A. E.S." yellow gold bezel with Roman numerals on a black champleve enamelled ground. Silver engineturned with Arabic minute ring. Blued steel "Oriental Cartier" hands. Notes At last we contemplate a candidate who is frank and honest, sensible and unafraid," wrote critic H. L. Mencken of New York's Democratic Governor, Alfred Emanuel Smith, regarding his candidacy in the 1928 presidential elections. Smith was a Democrat from birth, born in 1873 to a poor Irish immigrant family on New York City's East Side. At the age of 18, he was granted a minor city clerkship and soon impressed Tammany Hall's leaders as an able, outgoing newcomer. a New York State assemblyman (1904-15) and later speaker (1913-15), he became increasingly reform-minded, and in 1918 he won the first of four terms as governor of New York. Though narrowly defeated in the Republican sweep of 1920, he was reelected in 1922, 1924 and 1926, earning a national reputation for his progressive programs in such areas as state parks, housing, improved working conditions, child welfare and care of the insane. The favourite son of urban Democrats at the 1924 presidential convention-where he was nominated as the "happy warrior of the political battlefield" by Frankli Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-12-15
