N.Y. General Business Law § 229-e: Marking metal placed on leather or other substances sterling or sterling silver

§ 229-e. Marking metal placed on leather or other substances sterling

or sterling 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

comprised of leather, shell, ivory, celluloid, pearl, glass, porcelain,

pottery, steel, or wood to which is applied or attached a metal mounting

marked, stamped or branded with the words "sterling" or "sterling

silver," unless said applied or attached metal mounting shall contain

not less than nine hundred and twenty-five one-thousandths parts of pure

silver, is guilty of a misdemeanor.