United States v. Foscato

Small prismoidal pieces or blocks of glass, some gilded and others colored yellow, green, blue, orange, and maroon, were classified by the collector of customs at the port of New York as articles of glass, colored, and assessed for duty at 60 per cent ad valorem under that part of paragraph 98 of the tariff act of 1909 which reads as follows:

98. Glass bottles, decanters, and all articles of every description composed wholly or in chief value of glass, ornamented or decorated in any manner, or cut, engraved, painted, decorated, ornamented, colored, stained, silvered, gilded, etched, sand…