1952 laissez-passer with a twist
Surprising visa inside an early Israeli travel document....
1939 passport of a Katyn victim
A passport issued to a murdered medical officer. One of the horrendous and shocking massacres of World War Two was committed by the...
Israeli service passport from 1951
Used by the famed Dayan family for official business. Israeli service passports were issued with specific connection to vital government business when t...
Aliens exit permit – China 1949
Early Communist issue for use together with a passport. The Peoples Republic of China was founded in October of that year. Years of civil war and unrest that rampaged throughout the country came to an end. The struggle to secure stability, in a nation that...
A true hero – Jewish diplomat
One of my favorite articles, so I have decided to run the article again and share it with you all today. Ehud Avriel – an activist's diplomatic passport. Born in 1917 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Georg Überall, he was educated into accepting the notion...
1920 British Mandate Laissez-Passer
From military authority to civilian administration. Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, this was part of the British Empire, another colony; it was the Mandate, allocated to the United Kingdom after the end of World War One. The British won...
Superb 1954 diplomatic passports
Serving in Tel Aviv. Some of the rarest of passports to locate are those of official service in the young State of Israel. Though Israel ...
A selection of visas by a PCO
A British officials' visas throughout the years....
Looks like a visa but is NOT
Very early Jewish immigration “visa” for Palestine. An attractive early Second Republic passport from 1920, the year that Poland began to print officially passports en bulk. This could be considered as the first version, with others appearing already in 1921, see sampled imprint: Drukarnia Panstwowa...
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...