118 BULLETIN 16 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



S-shaped piece of silver plate covered with floral designs. Tlie 

 scabbard, which is made of leather, is decorated with two brass 

 mounts. A hanger in the Alfred F. Hopkins collection is of excep- 

 tional interest on account of its similarity to the one owned during 

 the Revolution by Maj. Gen. Richard Montgomery. This sword* 

 has a wooden grip decorated with alternate wide and narrow grooves, 

 the former being wound with silver strips and the latter with wire. 

 The pommel is a lion's head of silver plate, and the guard consists 

 of an oval-shaped openwork shield made of silver-plated wire. 



EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COLICHEMARDES 



This portion of the collection includes a number of interesting 

 examples of the colichemarde. One of these,^ with a blade of the 

 universal type, is engraved near the hilt, " Honi soit qui mal y pense." 

 The grip is covered with silver plate, ornately decorated with spiral 

 sprays of laurel leaves, and the pommel is a silver ball decorated with 

 spiral grooves. The guard is a slender circular piece of silver plate 

 decorated in the center with spiral grooves and continued to form 

 quillons of the same type, terminating at each end in globules. The 

 counterguard is a large heart-shaped shield of silver plate with the 

 monogram " G. R." on the obverse. The scabbard is made of russet 

 leather with single silver mount inscribed : " Tapp, Cutler in the 

 Strand." A second sword of this type in the collection is of very 

 much plainer workmanship with the hilt made of brass instead of 

 silver.'' These two swords both belong to the Alfred F. Hopkins col- 

 lection, which includes a third colichemarde ^ of crude workmanship. 



EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SMALL SWORDS 



The small swords in the collection include one ^ with a long, taper- 

 ing, straight blade with a narrow, deep groove extending the entire 

 length on each side and without decorations. The grip is covered 

 v/ith white fishskin and wound with eight turns of narrow silver 

 plate, and the pommel is a silver vase decorated with spiral grooves. 

 The guard is a slender openwork steel strip, which expands into a 

 scroll-work counterguard of a similar design, extending out from the 

 obverse side of the grip. The scabbard is made of russet leather 

 with three silver mounts, one of which is inscribed " GuUam, Charing 

 Cross." 



An English small sword of more than usual interest is one pre- 

 sented to Dr. George C. Clitherall, United States Army, by Joel I. 



* Length, 77 cm. Blade, 61.5 cm. loug, 2.7 cm. wide. PI. 34, fig. 1. 



5 Length, 98 cm. Blade, 80 cm. long, 3 cm. wide. PI. 33, fig. 4. 



8 Length, 98 cm. Blade, 80 cm. long, 2.7 cm. wide. PI. 33, fig. 6. 



'' Length, 86 cm. Blade, 69.2 cm. long, 2.3 wide. 



« Length, 97 cm. Blade, 80.5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide. PI. 33, fig. 5. 



