Special temporary travel document
By the end of 1943 the war was taking its toll on the axis and the inevitable ending was becoming clearer by the day as the fog and mist was evaporating, allowing the sun light ...
German issued foreigner-passports
Fremdenpass samples from Nazi Germany. Non-Germans who were not citizens, and wanted to go aboard, be it for travel or emigration, where issued these travel documents (special passports for foreigners). Pre-1933 Germany housed thousands of non-German...
Italian Social Republic passport 1945
The new republic was established at the second half of 1943 following the allied advances in northern Africa and the invasion of Sicily. These events caused the Grand Fascist Council with the backing of the King Victor Emmanuel III to overthrow Mussolini from power. Following his ousting, the new government began secret talk...
Israel’s first consular stamps
Rarest value – 5 Pruta. Israel was founded on May 14th of 1948, following the declaration of independence and the termination of the British Mandate which lasted from 1918 to 1948 the same year. ...
Manchurian visa inside a British passport
War-time Swiss protection endorsements issued at Beijing & Shanghai....
A selection of Manchurian visas
And a brief biography of a diplomat. September 18th 1931 was a crucial date in the history of modern China. From this month onwards, starting with Asia and ending with Europe, events would spiral from a regional conflict into a world war. The above mentioned date marks the Japanese invasion of North-Eastern China, a region known as Manchuria (a point needs to be made here: prior to the invasion, the Japanese had an enclave in the Dalian peninsula, Port Arthur, called Guan Dong Zhou Ting...
Important early NKVD signed passport
1922 Polish passport hand signed by NKVD would-be chief Genrikh Yagoda. Though not one of the first to appear from this young independent republic, formed after World War One, it has its appealing features. The passport was issued at the relatively new Polish consulate in Moscow, USSR, which was established following the Riga Treaty of March 1921. Formal relations were established on April 27, followed by the opening of diplomatic missions in...
Outstanding Diplomatic passport for Beijing
One of the earliest official passports used for the PRC. Early 1950 issued passport for Beijing. Used during the Korean War and at the height of the Cold War as well....
Another NKVD related travel document
being a Polish temporary internal passport from Samarkand....
Superb ambassador’s passport to North Korea
Outstanding diplomatic passport issued at the height of the Korean War. When one collects old passports and travel documents, one always tries to find the best and the rarest of items, and the item here can be considered as such. One of the most secluded and mysterious countries today, which...