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97.06 Antiques of an age exceeding one hundred years. This heading covers all antiques of an age exceedin one hundred ears, provided they are not included in headings 97.01 to 97.05. The interest o these articles erives fiom their age and, as a general consequence, their resulting rarity. H d' Subject to these conditions, the heading includes : (1) Antique furniture, frames and panelling. (2) Products of the printing industry : incunabula and other books, music, maps, engravings (other than those of heading 97.02). (3) Vases and other ceramic articles. (4) Textile articles :carpets, tapestries, embroidery, lace and other fabrics. (5) Jewellery. (6) Articles of goldsmiths' or silversmiths' wares (ewers, cups, candelabra, plate, etc.). (7) Leaded or stained glass windows. (8) Chandeliers and lamps. (9) Ironmongers' and locksmiths' wares. (10) Small ornaments for glass cabinets (boxes, sweetmeat boxes, snuff boxes, tobacco graters, caskets, fans, etc.). (1 1) Musical instruments. (12) Clocks and watches. (13) Glyptographers' wares (cameos, carved stones) and sigillographers' wares (seals, etc.). Provided the retain their original character, the headin includes antique articles which have been re aire or restored. For example, the heading inc udes : antique furniture incorporating arts o modern manufacture (e ., reinforcements and repairs); antique tapestries, leather or Fabrics, mounted on modern woo% P J k The heading does not cover, irrespective of their age, pearls, natural or cultured, or precious or semi-precious stones of headings 71.01 to 71.03.
1.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Unused postage or revenue stamps, postal stationery (stamped paper) or the like, of heading 49.07; (b) Theatrical scenery, studio back-cloths or the like, of painted canvas (heading 59.07) except if they may be classified in heading 97.06; or (c) Pearls, natural or cultured, or precious or semi-precious stones (headings 71.01 to 71.03). 2.- Heading 97.01 does not apply to mosaics that are mass-produced reproductions, casts or works of conventional craftsmanship of a commercial character, even if these articles are designed or created by artists. 3.- For the purposes of heading 97.02, the expression “original engravings, prints and lithographs” means impressions produced directly, in black and white or in colour, of one or of several plates wholly executed by hand by the artist, irrespective of the process or of the material employed by him, but not including any mechanical or photomechanical process. 4.- Heading 97.03 does not apply to mass-produced reproductions or works of conventional craftsmanship of a commercial character, even if these articles are designed or created by artists. 5.- (A) Subject to Notes 1 to 4 above, articles of this Chapter are to be classified in this Chapter and not in any other Chapter of the Nomenclature. (B) Heading 97.06 does not apply to articles of the preceding headings of this Chapter. 6.- Frames around paintings, drawings, pastels, collages or similar decorative plaques, engravings, prints or lithographs are to be classified with those articles, provided they are of a kind and of a value normal to those articles. Frames which are not of a kind or of a value normal to the articles referred to in this Note are to be classified separately.