75% of a FreeMason Medal, sheep? Pipe bowl and an amber tonic or extract bottle

[RatherBeDigging]

The amber ELB bottle is 1890s health tonic, extract, medicinal concoction from Elmer S. Burnham Co of New York. They were founded in 1890 and opened a New York location around 1894. Closed 1929. Based on bottle molding techniques it's 1890 to 1903ish.

0 idea on the sheep? Pipe bowl. Up for any suggestions on animal from and age. Found same area as the bottle.

The Mason coin, medal is plated zinc. Looks like it says Edward Bell' . Anyone have any ideas? Very unfamiliar with Mason stuff. It's pretty banged up sadly.

The other stuff from this two site hunt was just clad, common 1930s to 50s bottles my girlfriend likes to use as flower vases, broken depression era glass ash tray, vaseline glass bowl section. A lot of stuff I wish was whole and a 1919 and 1944 wheat penny.

 

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[Zep11in]

Great recoveries, Congrats!

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[ToddsPoint]

The pipe might be clay or it might be meerschaum carved in Europe. Gary

 

[pepperj]

Great looking pipe, never have seen one like that before posted up before.
The bottle is a nice find also.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Looks like some nice finds.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice work, congrats!

 

[RatherBeDigging]

thanks everyone. The pipe and bottle came out of a drainage spillway in woods. It flow down hill and into a little pipe and into a bigger creek. They must have cut it out through an old dump. Scrape at the walls and all kind of stuff falls out. Plus whatever a heavy rain washes out. Going to go back but it's really muddy right now. May have washed more stuff out. Brought home a lot of broken stuff for research. If it's flat enough my girlfriend wants to use shards for a garden stepping stone.

 

[RatherBeDigging]

Update on Mason Token meaning.

It dates to somewhere between 1968 and 1973. Based on information in Edward Bell's obituary. He was on the Grand Master's Staff of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania and worked on the lodges publication. He returned to Pittsburg in 1973. My bosses friend who is a Mason sent me this.

"Edward Bell was not just a member of a lodge. He was on staff of the most important Masonic Grand Lodge in US. Which means he was probably a Worshipful Master of his hometown lodge in Pittsburg or Philadelphia area. Generally a Worshipful Master gives every member of the lodge a token gift on the anniversary of their Masonic Birthday (date they became a master mason). I have a similar coin. They left the back empty so the Mason could engrave their name, Lodge # and date they were "raised" as a Mason. The coin did probably not belong to Edward Bell but one of the Masons in his lodge while he was Worshipful Master. Many Masons drilled a hole in them and put them on a key ring or necklace."