Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws Volume 39 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...purposes or as a plaything?--A. Why, it is really in the nature of an entertainment for the children. Q. In what way; entertainment as it appears on the tree?--A. As it appears on the tree; yes, sir. Q. Not to be played with?--A. Most of them can be pi ayed with, but not as a general rule. Q. They are too fragile?--A. It is fragile, yes. - - # - Q. Mr. Staelin, has it been your experience that adults get some pleasure from Christmas trees?--A. I should imagine so; of course I have had no personal experience in that. Q. You have had your own experience?--A. My own experience, because I take pleasure in those things which are a pleasure to my children. Aaron Gottlieb, a merchant importing and exporting and also doing business in this market for about 30 years, testified: I have bought nothing in toys except Christmas-tree ornaments. We handle nothing else in toys. He stated that during the period mentioned the greater part of his sales was throughout the United States, and in the general course of his business he personally came in contact with wholesale dealers in toys throughout the country. He further testified he had dealt in merchandise like the exhibits in protest 933753 at wholesale throughout the country. Q. Was there during all that time in the various trade centers of the United States a well-known, definite, and universally recognized trade term by which the merchandise in which you dealt was known in the trade?--A. Yes. Q. What was that term?--A. Christmas-tree ornaments and tree toys. General Appraiser Mcclelland. The question is whether the merchandise you deal in, which included merchandise similar to these Exhibits 1 and 2, were known to the trade as toys? The Witness. No; we did not handle toys; we handle Christmas-tree ornamen...