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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 Railroad, 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 Revolution. 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 knife 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 United 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 
