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...
AA Diplomatic ID from Berlin
1941 issue for use abroad....
French temporary travel document from China
A WW2 related laissez-passer issued at Beijing. 1939 issued temporary travel document to a Chinese young man, a student, on the grounds of travelling to french controlled Vietnam possibly for personal affairs....
Finnish passport used for Israel
Early arms cooperation from the 1950's....
Corfu Island during WWI
Serbian officer's official passport. 1914 to 1918 was the war that saw borders changing, empires crumbling and new orders rising. The passport in this article will relate to a specific location during that Great War. The Island of...
West-German early official passport
1953 Ministerialpass issued to a former Stalingrad 6th Army POW....
1799 US consular passport
Rare early issue from Germany....
WW2 US passport with a surprise inside.
Famed US diplomat Hiram Bingham IV...
Important Shanghai issued passport
With early Israeli visa from the Far East. The document in the article here was issued in China...