Bache v. United States

The merchandise in this case consists of glass disks which are made from crown or cylinder glass, bent, and are called mi-coquille glasses. They bear a general resemblance to ordinary watch crystals in size and shape, but are not beveled.

The articles were assessed with duty at If cents per pound and 5 per cent ad valorem as unpolished crown or cylinder glass, bent, under paragraphs 99 and 104 of the tariff act of 1909.

*508The importers protested against the assessment, claiming free entry for the merchandise as glass disks, rongh-cnt and unwrought, “ for use in the manufacture of spectacles,…