1922 Polish NANSEN certificate
Used 3 years later for British Palestine....
“The Department of German Interests”
This is the second sample that I have located; and would consider a rarity since not many have surfaced during my 10 years of collecting old passports...
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...
“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 ...
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...
1925 Turkish passport
Used by a Jewish Russian refugee....
1919 US passport
Versailles participant for the AJC. World War One is notoriously remembered also by its outcome and the events that ultimately lead to the next wa...
1914 Emergency issued passports
United States special issued war travel documents. Two years ago the world remembered the 100th year for the outbreak of World War One. The war that was supposed to end all wars, the war that engulfed Europe for 4 years and the war that was...
Superb early Finnish diplomatic passport
Issued to a member of the Legation stationed in Moscow. Early diplomatic passports issued during the formation of relations between two nations are the rarest and of importance, because not only of their collector rarity but also of their historical importance: we can learn about...
Upper Silesia plebiscite passports
Inter-Allied issued passports & ID's during 1920-1922. Some of the most interesting documents & passports can be attributed to post-WWI areas of dispute and conflict that sprung up like "mushrooms after the rain" in Europe....
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