For sale is a 1994 DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR SURVEY MARKER, ORNO, Maine. This marker may have been sold as a commemorative paperweight in 1990s as a paperweight. The brass marker measures 3 1/4 inches diameter. The disk is inscribed: “U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR – UNLAWFUL TO DISTURB – OWAA – “KNOW YOUR BOUNDS” – ORNO, MAINE – JUNE 1994 – CADASTRAL SURVEY – BUR. OF LAND MANAGEMENT”. An unusual collectible.
Survey markers, are also called survey marks, survey monuments, or geodetic marks, are objects placed to mark key survey points on the Earth’s surface.
