Blumenthal & Co. v. United States

This case involves a considerable number of protests by various importers and relates to buttons of different colors made of glass and fish scales. Two exhibits are returned as representing all the importations concerning which any question is made. The globes of the buttons are of hollow, transparent glass, the interior of which is lined or coated with fish scales, which coating is visible or shines through the glass and gives to the buttons the white or colored effects shown by the exhibits. The shanks seem also to be of glass. The testimony taken before the board does not show whether the…