A rare encounter
An SS officer & Swedish diplomat....
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...
Swedish diplomat in Danzig
1936 Danzig consular (!) passport used for the Mandate. Another fascinating pre-war travel document being used by a Jewish teenager...
Japanese life-saving-visa
1940 Geek passports used for fleeing Europe. Much has been written...
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....