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May. 11. Leopold Desmuth and his father, pipe mfrs drove here at 10 A.M. with their limousine, by appointment. Showed me [[strikeout]] piece of [[strikeout]] slab of amber imitation which they had obtained thru a certain Mr. Adiss in New York and who had obtained some from a certain Kunisch in Vienna. They think the latter obtained it from another party. Material is sold here at $3 50[[underlined]] a lb. It looks and works entirely like tansparent C. pressed or cast in slabs. They showed me beautiful samples of cigar holders turned from my C. and from that slab. They look very much alike. They tell me Vienna sample darkens on [[laying?]]. Heated Vienna sample it smells much ammonia besides the
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characteristic odor of [[strikeout]] burning C. This is undoubtedly made after my process. They tell me material has been reported as "amber". which of course could be stopped at custom house. amber paying no duty, while unclassified elements do. 
Desmuth is an old man who seems to have accumulated much money in the pipe business Says sells more than one to two million Dollars of pipes yearly only of better grade. Purchases now $150.000 worth annually of celluloid bits from Pyralin Co in Arlington N.Y. at about $1.00[[00 underlined]] a lb. Would like to have monopoly on minimum royalty cases for pipe stems for the U.S. I promised him to make further samples and submit