A Top 10 Winner for 2001!
1 Foot by 2 Foot Un Dug Area leaves a Mexican Staff
Officer's Button..
Well, look at this button TR (Larry Cissna)-what do you think it
is?
Just one of the questions that I ask on a very hot day in Texas
while digging at a Camp site with a few of the Texas guys last year. Mike
and I had been asked if we would like to join in on a hunt that TR, Ken,
Richard (TX.), Sheriff King and a few others were doing at one of one of
the camp sites found nearby and being the polite people we are, of course we accepted
the invitation.
To say the least, the weather was not unusual for that time of the year
with promises of being hot (and I mean hot--99.99 degrees in the shade)
with a swamp of mosquitoes to bite you even with the best of
repellent sprayed over every square inch of your body. Forgot to mention
that watching your step was also important at that time! SNAKES that do
cross in front of you and just sliver off the embankment to the water hole
to cool off were to be found in that area. Yeah, the snake in the mouth of
that bird on the button pictured above is definitely found at the same spot I encountered
that real live reptile (a water moccasin) of which I know that the Snake Goddess allowed me to find that button due to the fact that
I did let the Snake live. I DO NOT LIKE SNAKES OF ANY KIND. AND I MEAN ANY
KIND......LIVE OR DEAD.
The morning started with us leaving TR's home and driving to the
site to meet the others. Being there were a few in number, a plan had
been devised as to how it would be easy for everyone to dig in the area.
So
with this plan in action, off we went to digging the area and swinging our
detectors. Now that is where the 1 foot by 2 foot undug area comes
into play. Around a camp site was an area that had been dug out and
numerous buttons, camp site relics, etc. had been extracted but a small portion
remaining between 2 camp sites were left untouched by the
shovels of some relic hunters--(I won't mention names) and Mike and
I
were thinking it would not hurt to finish this area for any remote
possibly of something still being in the ground. Yeah, you got the picture
now- that Mexican General Staff Officer's Button was found right there in
the remaining undug earth. Mike started digging into the embankment
with his shovel and throwing the dirt behind him and I started spreading
the dirt around to make it easier for detecting. The button and a few
coins were in that dirt. With my second signal I recovered the
button. I told Mike to stop and look at what I had. Not ever seeing one like this
before, I got TR'S attention and ask him the 2nd question, what type
button is this? After placing it in his hand he looks at me and says in
a serious voice. "It's a Mexican Staff
Officer's Button." Being a newbie to this area that
reply didn't sink in at once. It was after TR explained the rarity of such
a button did I realize just how sweet of find it was. TR possesses a
button like this in his collection and with the knowledge and history
search that he has done on how this button came to be in that particular
area has added a new meaning to my button. I share the button's history
with others and I am glad to have been able to join in on the site
hunt. Hopefully, I will be asked to join in on some more hunts with he and the
others. I can't bring him any ring dings but I can bring extra water,
suggest something besides Tennis Shoes in a very wet, soggy area and bring
an
extra can of MOSQUITO REPELLENT if necessary.
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