diff --git a/moto/s3/models.py b/moto/s3/models.py
index b4ef6cc2a10f..97e1bf50b3ab 100644
--- a/moto/s3/models.py
+++ b/moto/s3/models.py
@@ -2577,7 +2577,7 @@ def list_objects(
         ]
 
         if marker:
-            limit = self._pagination_tokens.get(marker)
+            limit = self._pagination_tokens.get(marker) or marker
             key_results = self._get_results_from_token(key_results, limit)
 
         if max_keys is not None:
diff --git a/tests/test_s3/test_s3_list_objects.py b/tests/test_s3/test_s3_list_objects.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ffb500f715b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_s3/test_s3_list_objects.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import boto3
+import pytest
+
+from . import s3_aws_verified
+
+
+@pytest.mark.aws_verified
+@s3_aws_verified
+def test_s3_filter_with_manual_marker(name=None) -> None:
+    """
+    Batch manually:
+    1. Get list of all items, but only take first 5
+    2. Get list of items, starting at position 5 - only take first 5
+    3. Get list of items, starting at position 10 - only take first 5
+    4. Get list of items starting at position 15
+
+    If the user paginates using the PageSize-argument, Moto stores/returns a custom NextMarker-attribute
+
+    This test verifies that it is possible to pass an existing key-name as the Marker-attribute
+    """
+    bucket = boto3.resource("s3", "us-east-1").Bucket(name)
+
+    def batch_from(marker: str, *, batch_size: int):
+        first: str | None = None
+        ret = []
+
+        for obj in bucket.objects.filter(Marker=marker):
+            if first is None:
+                first = obj.key
+            ret.append(obj)
+            if len(ret) >= batch_size:
+                break
+
+        return ret
+
+    keys = [f"key_{i:02d}" for i in range(17)]
+    for key in keys:
+        bucket.put_object(Body=f"hello {key}".encode(), Key=key)
+
+    marker = ""
+    batch_size = 5
+    pages = []
+
+    while batch := batch_from(marker, batch_size=batch_size):
+        pages.append([b.key for b in batch])
+        marker = batch[-1].key
+
+    assert len(pages) == 4
+    assert pages[0] == ["key_00", "key_01", "key_02", "key_03", "key_04"]
+    assert pages[1] == ["key_05", "key_06", "key_07", "key_08", "key_09"]
+    assert pages[2] == ["key_10", "key_11", "key_12", "key_13", "key_14"]
+    assert pages[3] == ["key_15", "key_16"]