Protest 954879-G/87970 of American Jewelers Bureau, Inc.

Opinion by

Oliver, P. J.

A sample of the merchandise admitted in evidence (exhibit 1) consists of three strands of cultured pearls, without a clasp, converging on a large central pearl. The president of the importing corporation testified that pearls imported in strands by his firm are restrung into necklaces and bracelets and that the loose ones are used as settings in rings and earrings in cultured pearl jewelry; that the merchandise in question is unfit for use in its imported condition for the reason that where the necklace joins in the center it is on a temporary cord tied with a little…