US diplomatic mission in Spain. A lovely early Americana official State Department related circular. The document was hand written and signed by US senior diplomat to Spain George W. Erving (1769-1850). His posting to Madrid, as Chargי d'Affaires (the ‘ambassador’ was James Bowdoin III), started...
2017 Jerusalem awarded to a Chilean national. Chilean Diplomat Samuel del Campo....
For the British Mandate of Palestine. Mr. Hyamson would personally review and issue himself many of the immigration application and passports themselves...
Rare SS commandants signed release form. The Infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement of August 1939 paved the way to the outbreak of hostilities that would engulf the continent and then the ...
Printers of Passports & Travel Documents as well. Israel “inherited” it’s Government Printer (GP) from the terminated British Mandate in 1948. Originally established in an old winery, in what was a German settlement colony called Sharona. The Winery went bankrupt and it turned into a...
SS issued visas from Galicia. Three sides took part in World War Two: The Neutral countries, the Allied countries and last, the Axis countries. All sides had their causes, be it ideological, financial or other, that made them ...
Post-War use for lottery in 1945. Here is a fine example of post-war paper shortage usage. After the war there was an acute shortage of paper manufacturing, and we can find this in liberated countries throughout Europe and even as far as in China. Many...
Here is another interesting travel document that was issued for Europe. Though it is not war related, not to the Second World War which is my core interest when it comes to researching and locating old passports, it is still important enoug...
Used by a former Holocaust survivor during 1946 to 1952. Molly van der Hoop was born to a Jewish mother named Leah Konijn in 1917, Holland. Life was rather quiet and normal until 1940, the year...
Czech Jewish woman interned and freed. Last year I located a fine example of WW2 and Holocaust related travel document...
