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The Alfred Smith Sterling Tiffany humidor, presented to the four time Governor of New York and Presidential candidate in 1928 by the people of New York in 1930. The humidor is in the form of a Medieval strap work treasure chest and contains over 150 troy ounces of silver. Base marked, `Tiffany & Co 21446Y Makers 3931 Sterling Silver 925-1000 M Special Hand work`. Accompanying the box is a copy of the original Tiffany drawings of the piece, the work record detailing time spent on it and other information from Tiffany & Company. The interior of the lid reads as follows: `Welcome Home Governor Smith. We in New York know you and have known you for many years, and admire you more and more as we know you longer, Welcome your return home to-day to your own people , your friends, and neighbors of a lifetime. We have followed you with fascination in your tour around the country, we have rejoiced with you in the receptions you have received in other cities of the Nation, and we have wished that other people throughout the country knew you as your neighbors here in New York know you. For the American people would then know the Alfred E. Smith whose progress we have watched from the fish stand in Fulton market where you went as a boy to help your widowed mother until you reached the position where the democracy of this country chose you as their candidate for the most exalted position within the gift of your fellow citizens. If the people of the United States knew you as we know you, they would know the Al Smith whose career is an inspiration to every true American, whose accomplishments are a tribute to American idealism and whose success is a proof of American opportunity. They would know the boy who encountered but overcame many hardships, and they would know the man who later dedicated his every effort to alleviate the hardships of others. They would know the husband and father in a family whose happiness reveals more eloquently and more effectively than words can describe the fineness of your personal character. They would know the simplicity, the honesty, the straightforwardness of your life. They would feel the sincere religiousness of your spirit, a religiousness so real that it would truly make for a brotherhood of man; and they would understand why you wonder how any man`s religion can be questioned by any other man. They would know the charitableness of your nature: and they would see why, even though you detest cant and hypocrisy and deceit, you feel no rancor in your heart against the misguided men given to such practices. They would know of the foresight and the knowledge that have characterized your every official act. They would know of the ability and the integrity you have employed to administer the laws which your courage and your statesmanship, your vision and your efforts have brought to our State, so that work might be done better, that rest might be easier and that children might have assured to them a brighter future than you had as a boy on the sidewalks of New York. So, welcome home, Al-HOME, where we are proud to call you our first citizen, where we are devoted to you, not because you have been our Governor for four terms, not because you may be our next President, but because you are Al Smith.` Paul Block (signature in facsimile) Publisher Copy of Editorial published in New York Newspapers, November, Second, 1928 4.625`H x 11.625`W x 7.125`D, Circa - 1930.

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