Early pre-occupation Manchurian passport
Harbin issued travel document - Shortly before the Japanese occupation. 1930 was the last year before the Japanese would occupy North-Eastern China in what they would term it as t...
Going to Manchuria in 1938
Visa issued inside a British Palestine passport. The Manchurian Imperial State (满洲帝国) was established or proclaimed as a state in 1932 after the Japanese invaded the territory on September 18th 1931 in what was then part of north-eastern China known also as "Dong Bei" (东北). The Manchurian state did not open diplomatic missions in every country. Not many approved or recognize...
Moscow 1932 issued German passport
German-Soviet pre-1933 cooperation. Before Adolf Hitler came to power in January of 1933, the Soviet Union and Germany had a rich cooperation that began in the 1920's. After WWI both countries were practically in ruins and devastated economically. T...
Austrian presence in West Germany
Österreichische Verbindungsstelle in Deutschland - 1949. The passport here is very interesting, especially for historians or collectors of Allied occupational material relating to the years 1945 to 1951. Austria was bound to the Allied agreements of post-war Europe with regarding to its status and presence in the occupied zones of Germany and also after the creation of West Germany in 1949. ...
Polish service passport from 1949
Passport for occupied Germany. The item here is one of the rarest, in my opinion, that can be discovered with connection to the allied occupation of Germany. One of my passions in collecting old passports is to polish passports from the Second Republic and also to WW2 related documents and papers. The sample here combines these two topics and makes it an attractive specimen indeed....
“Worlds in Collision” authors’ passport
1947 British Palestine issued passport to Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky. One of the 20th Centuries controversial authors' passport has surfaced recently. Born on May 29th 1895 to a well off Jewish family i...
1945 German passport
With Sicherheitsdienst amendments & entries. German passports issued and used during the war where rather limited to the locations they could be used at or travelling to and as the war progressed and worsened for them, the "traveling" destinations became limited and more acute. At the end, using the passports was rather pointless, in some ways, because there were practically no more places to go to...
Polish diplomat executed
Pre-war used German passport. The passport here is a regular issued German travel document that was used before the outbreak of war in 1939. The document was issued to a citizen living in Angerburg...
Dayan family Mandate passport
1946 issue for Zionist Conference in Switzerland. Here is a rare Mandate issued passport used by a member of the famed Israeli Dayan family. But before we can continue with this historical important document, allow me to point out some important points regarding the issuing of British Colonial passports from the Middle East, from the Mandate of Palestine....
Stasi informer’s 1958 Japanese travel document
Prague issued by diplomat Shiroshichi Kimura (木村 四郎七). Cold War era issued travel certificate for a Berlin reporter. Issued at the Japanese embassy in Prague by the new ambassador Shiroshichi Kimura, who a year early arrived to open his country’s diplomatic mission, following the establishment of relations between the two countries....