First Post-war Polish passport – 1945
One of my strongest passions is to early Polish passports, those issued during the 2nd Republic and up to the first years following the end of World War Two....
WWII French consular stamps
The various forms used during the war. During the period of the occupation, the various French diplomatic missions and legations throughout the Allied and neutral countries went through several changes in their definition and ...
1932 Polish travel ID
Consular issue from the USSR....
Beautiful collective-passport
Issued in 1923 for travelling from Poland to Hungary. Here is a lovely passport...
Food rationing & passports
Shortages in Israel – 1950's....
Romania & the Holocaust
Rare VoMi issued SS Kommandobuch....
1907 exceptionally rare colonial passport
German New Guinea signed passport....
Pre-war Polish service passport
Issued in 1936 for official consular service in Nazi Germany. Warsaw issued to a consulate official named Alfred Matuszewski – who was stationed at the Polish consulate at Schneidemuhl (Polish named Piła) close to the German-Polish border. Before 1945 the town was in German territory....
Why collect old passports? And what can we learn from them?
Have been interested in old travel documents and passports for over 20 years and have been focused on collecting items stemming from the era of World War Two and the H...
Weimar Republic diplomatic passport
Interesting German official passport used by Foreign Office interpreter and French law expert, Dr. Fritz Nordern, who was born to a Jewish family on March 19, 1881 in Leipzig and passed away on June 28, 1932 in Geneva ...