Section 229-B. Selling silverware marked coin or coin silver  


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  • 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.