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and modified for mounting on a railroad car. The gun was cap- 

 tured with the armored train Orlik from bolshevists forces by 

 Czecho-Slovak troops, July, 1918, and used by the latter in their 

 defense of the Trans-Siberian Kailroad, 1918-20. From the War 

 Department, Motor Transport Corps, was received three captured 

 German military vehicles as follows: A Komnick auto truck, a 

 Herring truck, and a Lanz ordnance tractor. 



ORIGINAL COLLECTIONS. 



The antiquarian section of the original historical collections has 

 received a number of notable objects, among which the following may 

 be mentioned: A watch seal of carnelian set in gold, bearing the 

 Washington crest and owned by General Washington subsequent to 

 the War of the Eevolution. The seal was given by Washington to 

 his nephew, Bushrod Washington, who inherited Mount Vernon 

 upon the death of Mrs. Washington in 1802. It was later bequeathed 

 to Mr. William Lanier Washington and has now been presented to 

 the National Museum by Mr. William Sloane, of New York City. 

 A pair of shoe buckles and a punch glass owned by General Wash- 

 ington ; a purse owned by Mrs. Washington ; a gold watch and a sil- 

 ver teaspoon owned by Lord Thomas Fairfax; a silver tea caddy 

 owned by Gov. Alexander Spottswood; a Imife and fork owned by 

 Dr. William Cabell; three glass decanters in a silver stand owned 

 by Col. Augustine Claiborne; and a traveling sermon box owned 

 by Gilbert Burnett, Bishop of Salisbury, were lent by the National 

 Society of the Colonial Dames of America. A Cincinnati china tea- 

 cup and an antique Mexican chair were presented by Mrs. E. M. 

 Chapman. A collection of 15 pieces of American Historical china- 

 ware, including a number of pieces used at the White House by Presi- 

 dent Lincoln and decorated with the LTnited States coat of arms, was 

 lent by Mrs. F. W. Dickins. A pair of silver shoe buckles worn dur- 

 ing the War of the Revolution by Lieut. Col. Thomas Posey, of the 

 Seventh Virginia Regiment, was lent by Miss Lucy S. Beverley, and 

 two glass decanters owned by Henry Clay were the gift of Mrs. 

 Lulu Hillary Epler. 



Among the notable additions to the biographical section of the 

 historical collections are a silver punch bowl with tray, ladle, and 10 

 mugs, which were presented to Lieut. Col. George Armistead. The 

 bowl with cover is in the shape of a cannon ball supported by four 

 eagles. On one side is engraved a view of the fort and harbor; on 

 the other appears the following inscription : " Presented by a number 

 of the citizens of Baltimore to Lieutenant Colonel George Armistead 

 for his gallant and successful defense of Fort McHenry during the 

 bombardment by a large British force on the 12th and 13th of Sep- 

 tember, 1814, when upwards of 1,500 shells were thrown, 400 of 



