Hello everyone!
Not so long ago, but before the snow and after another rain, I decided to take a ride around the neighborhood, so to speak: wherever my eyes look. Without any preparation, the car is filled with gas, it’s Sunday, you don’t really need to go anywhere, that’s really good!) So, after the 20th kilometer in the direction opposite to common sense, I didn’t come across any interesting place, I decided to turn back to come back closer , and stop at the first but acceptable place that you like.) And now, a mown field, a little from the road, into the hole from the first nail — candy, rain again and after 12 minutes there is a signal. Chermet mixed with color and changes. I’m digging, interesting, button! There is some kind of image on it that looks like a bush in a pot.)) Okay, I think I’ll get home, wash it, and see what class it might belong to, I’ve never seen one like that before. Well, the result: a button from the uniform of a soldier of a grenadier regiment!) Or a carabinieri regiment!)) And not a simple one at that, but the bush in the pot turned out to be a grenade with a burning fuse.) And immediately thoughts about how, perhaps, it was lost, so and I imagine the options and the brain draws different pictures.)) That’s it, 12 minutes and a piece of history in your hand.)
Here is a direction taken at random, so sometimes you can turn off your thoughts and go somewhere, the road itself knows where to take you. Good finds to everyone and may they be for the soul!)
P.S. Hello everyone again, I hasten to continue the story of my first button: a couple of weeks passed, the button lay safely in the soap solution, the soap did its job and the other side was revealed to me and the circle of applicants for wearing the button was reduced.)) Now it is clear that this is an attribute of the Russian carabinieri the first carabinieri regiment or the Barclay de Tolly regiment, made in St. Petersburg at the Bukh factory, of course, it is not clear whether he was a brave soldier or so.) But I think so.)) It’s more pleasant, and he had a lot of exploits behind him, and a sea of awards (I wish I could find them). Now I hold the button from his uniform in my hand, I tell my daughter various stories about brave soldiers.) And the button was washed beautifully, one might say in keeping with the theme, the grenade turned out as if it were alive, a small spark of the remains of gilding in the wick and gilding in the center of the grenade, as if just a little more now -a little bit and bang!)) It’s a pity that the photos don’t convey everything! This is the story of a little button, I congratulate myself on the opening of a new collection.) And once again, heartfelt discoveries to you!
Sent by comrade Mikhail A.