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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cxgirl, post: 309855, member: 63&quot;]Hi All,</p><p>I&#039;ve had this tin for several years, just re-discovered it. The pins are Chinese Freemason pins, a bunch of little gold ball things&nbsp; wrapped in paper - what do you think they are?</p><p>Also a little fish, no marks to indicate silver - ideas on where it would have been made?</p><p>I asked the Grand Lodge of BC and Yukon about the pins, here is the reply</p><p><i>Greetings: </i></p><p><i>The image is not of a high enough resolution for me to clearly distinguish the characters but this pin may have been struck by the Bing Kong Tong in San Francisco, one of several groups which, by 1920, were referring to themselves as the Chinese Freemasons. This club has no relationship with regular Freemasonry but adopted the square and compasses emblem in the late nineteenth century, and the name &quot;Chinese Freemasons&quot; in the early twentieth, at a time when there was little contact between the asian and mainstream North American communities.</i></p><p>Any information appreciated.</p><p>thanks for looking</p><p>[ATTACH=full]102353[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]102354[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]102355[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]102356[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]102357[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]102358[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]102359[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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