Any manufacturer or dealer who makes for sale, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article constructed in part of silver, or any alloy or imitation thereof, having thereon, or on any box, package, cover, wrapper or other thing enclosing or encasing such article for sale, any stamp, brand, engraving, printed label, trademark, imprint or other mark containing the word “coin” or the words “coin silver”, referring or designed or intended to refer to the silver or alloy or imitation thereof in such article, when such silver, alloy or imitation contains less than nine-tenths thereof of pure silver, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.
(1949 Rev., S. 8626.)