SOUVENIR FROM KOREA
Valuable Rug Seized By U.S. Customs
SAN FRANCISCO, August 2. Customs agents yesterday seized a 48-skin leopard rug, believed to be a Korean national treasure, from the family of a soldier who mailed it home from Seoul as a souvenir. The agents said the rug was seized because it entered the country duty free, in violation of the Federal law which provides that soldiers' souvenirs valued at more than 50 dollars cannot be admitted duty free. The seizure was a routine matter. The South Korean Consul-General said in New York recently that the tug was worth about 100,000 dollars.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26492, 6 August 1951, Page 7
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