This person sure has a good imagination about the reference arrow pointing to Washington D.C. during WWII.
lol! Now that is funny. He even goes on and on about espionage and spies.
At least 5 bidders so far bought the story...
Good thing they removed that Washington pointer. The local police were undoubtedly able to capture all those spies who had to ask passersby, "Pardone, vitch vay to Vashington?"
well now I'm confused...
I found three of those and they all pointed to the station mark?
Maybe three different directions to DC like all the way around the globe or something.
Guess I don't recall seeing fletchings on the arrows of az mks. or at least that many.... the 5 is upside down also.
Nothing to say, but WOW! People are so gullible. They are willing to pay almost $80 so far for a very rare survey mark, worth almost $5 or $6 on the black market.
At least our national security is all the better after pulling this one, usually it's just the utility companies and grader operator's out causing mayhem.
> This person sure has a good imagination about the reference arrow pointing to Washington D.C. during WWII.
I'm thinking that there ought to be a contest to see who can sell a (used) rebar survey marker on eBay for the most money. Clearly, the value lies in the tale, not the object; so the winner ought to realize at least $50 from a rusty old piece of rebar.
I saw it this morning before I left the house for work. Now at work, and it isn't up there anymore. Must have been reported maybe?
Nevermind. It is still up...Penry's link doesn't direct link anymore I guess.
wow ... some people
How do you comment on this? It is so funny. Yet, kinda sad. I mean, the Nazi connection is being used to sell a survey marker. I HOPE nobody infers from this that every time the happen across one of these survey markers, that they have found a 'pot o gold' and starts collecting them!!
Thanks Mr. Penry for posting this. That wad of misinformation along with the brass is too much!
I reposted that on facebook.
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I would guess that David is correct. This mark is only a reference mark and not an azimuth mark. I can't recall finding azimuth marks with USGS marks and only with USCGS marks.
And I find it somewhat amusing that anyone would think that some high powered spy could not find Washington without the aid of this mark. In 1943 it wasn't like they had smart bombs or such.
I'm wondering if this seller is not some geocacher person trying to turn his weekend hunts into some profit machine.
Trimmed link to item http://cgi.ebay.com/360367275903
Survey markers SHOULD be on their banned item list. I'm afraid one of these days we're going to find some city's most-used BM on there instead of the more typical USGS marker with no NGS data sheet.
I complained to ebay See "Report Item" at right of screen below "Other Item Info" box.
Actually, if you turn those clockwise 90 degrees, the stairs to the secret bunkers open.
If anyone is interested, I have the ORIGINAL markers that were used to lay out the yellow brick road in Oz.