Elder v. United States

DoNloN, Judge:

These two protests were tried together at Los Angeles, but were not consolidated for purposes of trial. While there is evidence that is in some part special to each of the protests, we write one opinion covering both cases.

Each protest relates to a sculptured statuary, representative of a family group, the work of Leone Tommasi, an Italian sculptor, and called by him “La Famiglia.” Other sculptures were imported as part of these same entries, but those were liquidated under paragraph 1807 and are not in issue here.

In protest 61/73019 (entry 05914), the sculpture and its pedestal…