David E. Schwab Co. v. United States

This appeal is from the judgment of the United States Customs Court, Second Division, 55 Cust. Ct. 385, Abstract 69427, overruling *22the importer’s protest to the assessment of duty on rounds of machine-made lace between eleven and twelve inches in diameter (nominally 30 ■centimeters), commonly known and described as “chapel caps” or “lace prayer caps.” Samples are in evidence.

The importer concedes that they are made in France on a Levers lace machine, that they are chiefly used throughout the United States by women to cover their heads while in church, and that they are in •chief value of silk.