_USNM. 604351-M (S-K 507). Figure 224._
[Illustration: FIGURE 224]
The _New York Military Magazine_ provides us with a strong clue in
identifying this clipped-corner, bevelled-edged brass plate with a
silver-on-copper tiger's head applied. In a sketch of the Light Guard
of New York it is related that, following a visit in 1836 to the
Boston Light Infantry, members of the company "adopted, as part of
their uniform, a silver tiger's head, to be placed on the breast
plate, as a further memento of the spirited and elegant corps whose
guests they had been."[135] This specimen is in agreement with that
description.
[Footnote 135: _New York Military Magazine_ (1841), vol. 1, p. 118.]