§ 229-b. Selling silverware marked coin or coin silver. Any person,
firm, corporation or association who makes or sells, or offers to sell
or dispose of, or has in his or its possession with intent to sell or
dispose of, any article of merchandise marked, stamped or branded with
the words "coin" or "coin silver," or incased or inclosed in any box,
package, cover or wrapper, or other thing in, by or with which the said
article is packed, inclosed or otherwise prepared for sale or
disposition, having thereupon any engraving or printed label, stamp,
imprint, mark or trade-mark, indicating or denoting by such marking,
stamping, branding, engraving or printing that such article is coin or
coin silver, unless nine hundred one thousandths parts of the component
parts of the metal of which the said article is manufactured is pure
silver, is guilty of a misdemeanor.