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 ...
“The Department of German Interests”
Swiss legation issued passport from 1919. Here is an important World War One travel document that was issued due to special war-time circumstances. During the First Great War of 1914-1918 not all ...
A rare encounter
An SS officer & Swedish diplomat....
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...
Amazing set of papers used to escape France
WW2 passports, ID's & laissez-passer for a Polish soldier. The Second World War is full of fascinating stories, mixed with tales of heroism and of terror. Today these stories are kept in the form of witnessed verbal accounts and also in the form of documentation....
Courageous US Diplomat
Important 1943 issued passport from South America...
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...
Lovely early Chinese visa – Vladivostok
Here is an early Republican Chinese entry visa for Harbin from 1920. Chinese passports are rather interesting, and the 20th century has seen various types being issued: Qing Dynasty, the Nationalist Republic and the People's Republic of China. ...
Swedish diplomat in Danzig
1936 Danzig consular (!) passport used for the Mandate. Another fascinating pre-war travel document being used by a Jewish teenager...