Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Saint Martin Stone<br/>
Date: Mar 09, 2001 @ 11:10<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1740337041">peter<br/>
what a beauty<br/>
nice shooting<br/>
<br/>
moreover i found 2 margarets of austria<br/>
& both are even earlier than 18th c<br/>
one d1611 & the other d1530<br/>
<br/>
& another fascinating aspect of any austrian rocks found on the benl line<br/>
is that they must have lapsed as international boundary markers centuries<br/>
before the belgian dutch cleavage in the 1830s restored them to active<br/>
international duty<br/>
<br/>
they may have continued to serve in the interim as internal dutch boundary<br/>
markers<br/>
but of course i am only guessing about that<br/>
<br/>
i do think however that any such interval would not disqualify them as<br/>
candidates for the oldest working  world class  boundary stone<br/>
but would rather specially distinguish them as comeback kids<br/>
<br/>
m<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt;<br/>
&gt;Peter Smaardijk wrote:<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt; &gt; perhaps too there are still older ones i am not aware of<br/>
&gt;&gt; &gt; which needless to say i would be thrilled to learn about<br/>
&gt;&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt; Well, I know of a particularly nice one on the Dutch-Belgian border. Of<br/>
&gt;&gt;course this is also doubled<br/>
&gt;&gt; by a boundary marker of the standard type, but it is still there. It<br/>
&gt;&gt;stands in the border village of<br/>
&gt;&gt; Overslag, and as I recall it has the name Oostenrijk (=Austria) on it at<br/>
&gt;&gt;the Belgian side. So the<br/>
&gt;&gt; stone probably dates back to the 18th century, when this part of Belgium<br/>
&gt;&gt;(actually, most of it) was<br/>
&gt;&gt; part of the Austrian empire. Hopefully Eef can make a picture of it when<br/>
&gt;&gt;he&#39;s coming to this one on<br/>
&gt;&gt; one of the next stages of his journey...<br/>
&gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt;&gt; Peter S.<br/>
&gt;&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Confirmed: I just found a tiny picture of one of the Austrian border<br/>
&gt;stones, with a standard Dutch one<br/>
&gt;in the background. It says here that there are Austrian border markers<br/>
&gt;(plural!) in this village,<br/>
&gt;dating back to the reign of Margaret of Austria. I think that was the 18th<br/>
&gt;century.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
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