Subject: Re: Kovno Gubernia Border Marker<br/>
Date: Jun 30, 2003 @ 15:23<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2080853063">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Jan S. Krogh&quot; &lt;jan.krogh@t...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Hello everybody!<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Last weekend in Rokiskis museum here in Lithuania I found an <br/>
 </span></blockquote>internal<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Russian border marker which has been used prior to 1918 to mark the <br/>
 </span></blockquote>boundary<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; to Kovno Gubernia. It was in a pretty good shape and with the <br/>
 </span></blockquote>imperial<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Russian crown.<br/>
&gt; Some minutes before I was out of film in my camera...<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Jan<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Mmm... Maybe I can offer you some consolation.<br/>
A nice Russian border marker, complete with coat-of-arms, from former <br/>
JPRU in another museum (on Sakhalin): <br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://museum.sakh.com/images/photo16.jpg">http://museum.sakh.com/images/photo16.jpg</a><br/>
Inscription: RUSSIA - BOUNDARY. Clear enough for a boundary marker.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>