Swedish diplomat in Danzig
1936 Danzig consular (!) passport used for the Mandate. Another fascinating pre-war travel document being used by a Jewish teenager...
Interesting Mexican diplomatic passport
Manuel Tello Baurraud signed passport from 1950. Mexican diplomatic passport number D-32 was issued to Efrain G. Dominguez, acting consul at San Antonio...
Japanese life-saving-visa
1940 Geek passports used for fleeing Europe. Much has been written...
1934 Latvian passport for the Mandate
Issued for immigration to British Palestine. The Fifth Aliyah...
1852 French consular passport
First issue for use abroad....
Belgium issued passport from Tianjin
China issue from 1946. One of my passions in collecting passports & travel documents is to Chinese issued or used samples from WW2 and earlier. These attract me the most because of the 9 years I spent living in China, and also because of our...
AA Diplomatic ID from Berlin
1941 issue for use abroad....
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....
Finnish passport used for Israel
Early arms cooperation from the 1950's....