United States v. Wolff & Co.

De Vries, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

Tbe official sample of tbe imported merchandise tbe subject of tbis appeal is a small electric-light bulb of pear shape and color to be used in Christmas-tree decoration. While tbe official sample is thus confined, there is stipulated into tbe record other similar samples, which, however, are of a class of articles now so common in electric lighting and decoration that the court may well take judicial notice of them. It is proven in the record by testimony of the official customs examiner that “this merchandise is made to imitate about…