WW2 Special passport for the Pacific
1941 issued to a Navy officer....
Important Harbin issued passport
1934 Far East Polish consular sample....
UNTSO special ID cards
The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization was founded on May 28th 1948 following the creation of the State of Israel and the hostilities that existed in the Middle East. Its main aim was to assist the peacekeepers in the region in implementing the Armistice Agreements that where being singed or negotiated (On March 1949 all warring sides me...
1944 issued South African passport
Used five years later to travel to Israel. Colonial British passports are rather attractive and very collectible, and some of the most remote colonies issued sampled travel ...
Colonial passport
Rare Fiji Colony travel document from 1946....
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...
1958 Vietnamese Diplomatic passport
Senior member travelling to the US....
Rare pre-Anschluss stateless passport
Austrian travel document used for British Palestine no. 010.673 was issued to a Jewish couple originating from Romania...
Rescue efforts in Turkey
WW2 JAFP stationed in Istanbul. One of the last remaining safe-havens for those in Europe by the mid-1940's and located close to the continent was the neutral country of Turkey, bordering with Bulgaria. ...
WWII UNRRA used passport
1944 travel document for an official traveling to the Middle East on refugee matters. Special US passport that was issued in the United States for a member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration organization during its first year of operation. The passport in this article here is a good sample that relates to the early days of the UN and its handling of refugees during the war. The passport was used, on specific sea, air & land routes that were safe and available...