A Sterling Silver Dunhill Cigar Humidor from a Prominent New York Family

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A Sterling Silver Dunhill Cigar Humidor from a Prominent New York Family

About the Item

This Sterling Silver Cigar Humidor was given to Guy Gerard Rutherfurd, son of Winthrop Rutherfurd upon his wedding to Miss Georgette Whelan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Smith Whelan on September 8, 1938 in New York City, by his groomsmen. Guy Gerard Rutherford was former managing partner of one of New York City's oldest law firms, whose lineage included a colonial governor of New York, a U.S. vice president and the mistress of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Rutherfurd worked more than 50 years at Morris & McVeigh LLP, a Manhattan-based firm founded in 1862 to represent some of New York's founding families, from which he descended. Among them were the Morris family, owner of large parts of Morrisania (today's South Bronx), and the Stuyvesants, whose holdings included what is now the 80-acre Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, Manhattan's biggest apartment complex at one time. Rutherfurd's mother, the former Alice Morton, who died when he was 4, was a daughter of Levi P. Morton, who served from 1889 to 1893 as vice president under Benjamin Harrison and from 1895 to 1897 as governor of New York. (After the vice presidency, Levi Morton returned to banking and, in 1909, merged his Morton Trust Co. into Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., now JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)) Rutherfurd's father, Winthrop, remarried in 1920, and the former Lucy Page Mercer became Rutherfurd's stepmother. She would become a historical figure herself, through her association with Eleanor Roosevelt and subsequent romantic affair with Franklin Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt discovered the affair in 1918 when she found incriminating letters between Mercer, whom she had hired in 1913 as her 22-year-old social secretary, and her husband, who was then assistant U.S. Navy secretary. To save their marriage, Franklin Roosevelt promised to break off the affair with the woman nine years his junior. Whether he did so is a question debated by historians. Three of the ushers at his wedding were brothers to Guy Rutherfurd, the remaining were good friends and class mates from St. Paul's School in Concord, NH from other prominent families. Winthrop Rutherfurd Jr. (1904-1988) Hugo Rutherfurd (1911 - 2006) John P. Rutherfurd (1910 - 1987) Hugh Whittaker Jr. Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (1905 - 1954) Charles S McVeigh Jr. Charles B Dick Lewis Rutherfurd Suyvesant Francis Huger McAdoo Jr. - Grandson of Former US Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of CA Courtlandt Nicoll Jr. - Son of New York State Senator Craig Mitchell Angier Biddle Duke (1915 - 1995) Heir to American Tobacco Company and served as US Ambassador to El Salvador, Spain, Denmark, and Morocco, Chief of Protocol to US State Dept. under Kennedy. Benefactor of Duke University.

Creator:
Dunhill (Maker)
Dimensions:
Height: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)Width: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Sterling Silver
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1938
Condition:
Seller Location:
Salt Lake City, UT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU100171168148