Courageous US Diplomat
Important 1943 issued passport from South America...
Superb Finnish Diplomatic passport
1931 issued passport to Antti Hackzell. Very important 20th century diplomatic passport issued to a famed and well known Finnish politician with a rich diplomatic career behind him. This figure helped shape some of the century's important historical agreements and attended important conventions, climaxing with...
Lovely early Chinese visa – Vladivostok
Here is an early Republican Chinese entry visa for Harbin from 1920. Chinese passports are rather interesting, and the 20th century has seen various types being issued: Qing Dynasty, the Nationalist Republic and the People's Republic of China. ...
Swedish diplomat in Danzig
1936 Danzig consular (!) passport used for the Mandate. Another fascinating pre-war travel document being used by a Jewish teenager...
Interesting Mexican diplomatic passport
Manuel Tello Baurraud signed passport from 1950. Mexican diplomatic passport number D-32 was issued to Efrain G. Dominguez, acting consul at San Antonio...
Japanese life-saving-visa
1940 Geek passports used for fleeing Europe. Much has been written...
1934 Latvian passport for the Mandate
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. The Fifth Aliyah...
1852 French consular passport
First issue for use abroad....
Belgium issued passport from Tianjin
China issue from 1946. One of my passions in collecting passports & travel documents is to Chinese issued or used samples from WW2 and earlier. These attract me the most because of the 9 years I spent living in China, and also because of our...