1934 Latvian passport for the Mandate
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. The Fifth Aliyah...
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....
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...
1955 Aden Protectorate issue
Qu'aiti State (القعيطي al-Qu‘ayṭī) Mukalla passport. Some of the rare and sort after passports are those issued in former colonial territories that once belonged to the va...
1935 German passport
Issued by a diplomat with an interesting career. German passport number 2/35, itself being a remarkable low SN, was issued on January 2nd 1935 at the German consulate at Thorn (Toruń in Polish), located in northern Poland ...
Official passport used for Vietnam
US Navy officer serving in the Far East. Official passport issued on February 7th 1956 at Manila, Philippines, to naval officer ranked Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) named William Augustus Wheless, based at the Naval Station Sangley Point....
Chinese SPECIMEN service passport
Issued by the Chinese foreign ministry for archival use abroad. Here is a rare 40 year old specimen passport issued by Beijing and w...
Beautiful collective-passport
Issued in 1923 for travelling from Poland to Hungary. Here is a lovely passport...
1934 Soviet passport
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. Among the rare passports are those that were issued by the Soviet Union during the 1920's and 1930's, especially those issued for Jewish immigration to Palestine: The Communist authorities did not see kindly to the Zionist movement which they...