Polish official passport from 1927

 

Used by famed chemist Leon Paweł Marchlewski.

 

One of my passions in collecting old passports is to polish passports from the Second Republic, especially the early issues from the first year or two of the establishment of the republic and then 20 years later, to the rare short-lived issues of the first two months from the outbreak of war in 1939.

 

1920’s early official Foreign Ministry Polish passport No. 559/27 was issued to Leon Marchlewski on October 13th 1927 at Warsaw for the explicit use of attending an international convention on chemistry to be held at Paris.

 

The passport is printed on thick good quality paper and is in complete contrast to the simple produced passports for regular civilian use: first ‘editions’ of the republics passports for the masses lacked the better quality issues that followed in 1929.

 

Though it lacks the holder’s photograph, which for us passionate history lovers or collectors is a very discouraging factor, still, it is an important document belonging to an individual who has left his mark on science and a key contributor to the fields of Chlorophyll Chemistry.

 

Smaller image source: Wikipedia.

 

 

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