| Title |
Browning Arms Company Collection, Box 012, Folder 07 |
| Creator |
Birdsell, Wayne; Browning, Val A., 1895-1994; Rafter, John R.; FN (Firm : Belgium); Schroeder Freres; Zinn, Harry A.; United States. Bureau of Customs; Browning, John Val; Mattlet, Ernest; Briggs, William M.; Browning, Marriner Bigelow; Goddard, Grant F.; Kinkade, Byron; Senden, F. Raymond; United States. Embassy (Belgium); Union of Gunsmith Retailers of Belgium |
| Description |
Exchanges and documentation regarding customs and importation, with John R. Rafter as primary creator. Includes drafts of affidavits. |
| Subject |
Firearms industry and trade--United States; Firearms industry and trade--Utah; Browning Arms Company; Business enterprises--Utah--Ogden--History |
| Digital Publisher |
Digitized by Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Date Digital |
2026-06 |
| Date |
1951; 1952; 1953; 1954 |
| Medium |
correspondence; documents; financial records; legal records |
| Spatial Coverage |
Washington, D.C., United States; New York City, New York, United States; Denver, Denver County, Colorado, United States; Herstal, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium; Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States; St. Louis, Missouri, United States; Liège, Wallonia, Belgium; Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
| Type |
Text |
| Conversion Specifications |
Archived TIFF images were scanned with an Epson Expression 13000XL scanner. Digital images were reformatted in Photoshop. |
| Language |
eng; fra |
| Rights |
Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. For further information:  |
| Sponsorship/Funding |
Funding generously provided by the Val A. Browning Charitable Foundation. |
| Source |
Browning Arms Company Collection, MS492, Box 12, Folder 7, Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6mmbx9n |
| Setname |
wsu_ba |
| ID |
194196 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6mmbx9n |
| Title |
Page 42 |
| OCR Text |
Show Mr. John V. Browning June quantity of each of those three additional in that ease, describing them as follows: Wooden packed magazine with each Printed automatic and plugs for items automatic 9, of merchandise shotguns (one gun). circulars shotguns of (one Envelopes containing instructions. operating packed instructions with each above-described for gun). magazine Printed circulars of operating instructions posed shotguns (one packed with each gun). Envelopes 1953 containing above-described plugs for super- instructions. The quantity of each of the aboveementioned three items of merchandise to be stated on the invoice will be the same as the quantity of cuns in the packing cage in which those items are aiso contained. The invoice unit price and invoice total price to be in alongside and (9) columns stated voice of the (10), of respectively, description of each of in- consular the those three items must be the price, unit and total, at which each of them is sold by FH to your company, including the cost of marking them with the to, name of and the the country of thelr origin, cost of handling by FW. as hereinafter referred if any of these three items is sold by PN for home congumption in Belgium, the current unlit price at which it is thus sold must be stated in column (11) of the consular invoice. Otherwise, the word “none” should be inserted in that column opposite the description of each item which is not thus sold. merchandise at the the guns by PN Similarly, the printed question "Is such offered or sold in the home market for bottom and and of Consular any of “no” as to The wooden the any Form other items magazine parts of shotguns, at the rate tariff act, or as manufactures under paragraph 412. or similar home consumption? 136 should be answered three items of merchandise not thus plugs of of “yes" as thus to sold sold. would be dutiable, either as 15% under paragraph 365 of the wood, eat the rate of 16-2/3% |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
wsu_ba |
| ID |
194238 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s6mmbx9n/194238 |