Medalet promoting Grover Cleveland for president, 1892. Copper. DeWitt GC 1892-13. According to DeWitt, issued by the New York firm of Seward and Smith.
Obv: Bust of Cleveland to right, inscription around, GROVER CLEVELAND. Rev: Inscription, TARIFF REFORM/ PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PUBLIC TRUST, star between first and second line.
The maxim, "Public office is a public trust" was the unofficial slogan of Cleveland's three campaigns for the White House, and it appears on numerous objects, including this medalet from Cleveland's final campaign, in which the ex-president rose from his own political ashes to reclaim the office he had held between 1885 and 1889.
Choice, high grade example, desirable in this composition.
