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Well, look at this video from NTDTV.com incl. English subtitles and make your own opinion. By the way China just started to issue biometric passports.
It might be interesting for you to know that my passport database is one of the largest established. Of course, I know collectors which following this hobby much longer than I do and they have much more items in their own collection than I have in mine, but I...
Some month agao I got in contact with the editor of the magazin via my German friend Ingo, who is a long time member of this society. Luckily there were open to report also about side topics on collecting autographs. So the idea was born to write an article...
What you see here is the French passport of “Madame la marquise Le Bailly de la Falaise”. This name might not be familiar to you but she was very famous. Take a look at the picture. Do you recognize her? No? Then look very carefully at the document which...
This very nice document find it`s way also recently to my collection. issued to 19 year old Jacob Heinrich Richter. Beside the usual descripton of the person like age, hair and eye color we find also skin color (Gesichtsfarbe) which is rather unusual. detail crisp and complete wax seal...
As a collector of German travel documents it is not always easy to read the handwriting of a issued passport especially when you have documents before 19th century. Well, I guess said is valid also for other collectors and their collection area. The old German language is handwritten in...
Here you get an impression about the exciting documents I recently could aquire. Belive it or not the East German passport from 1956 is my favorite. It is not only one of the earliest issued passport in East Germany but it has also most interesting visas e.g. for BURMA...
by Tom Topol, passport collector & editor, Zürich, August 2012 One of the most famous travel documents in history is the “Safe Conduct” by Emperor Charles V for Martin Luther’s journey to the Imperial Diet of Worms in 1521. During the Middle Ages and early modern period, such documents...
The main reason to go to Budapest, beside meeting up with Marco, was to pick up a very special document. Some weeks ago I was contacted via my website if I would be interested in a RAOUL WALLENBERG SCHUTZPASS (Protection letter). Yes, you read correct. A second WALLENBERG was...
I informed my fellow collector Marco that I will be a few days in the city and we instantly agreed to take this chance to meet each other finally in person after we been in contact by email for about 2 years. Marco is not only a great...
NEW PASSPORTS FOR YOUR COLLECTION
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NEW PASSPORTS FOR YOUR COLLECTION
I want to buy the 1924 indian empire British India passport.
NEW PASSPORTS FOR YOUR COLLECTION
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GERMAN PASSPORTS FOR JEWS
They are and I was already contacting you by private email. Thanks, Tom
NEW PASSPORTS FOR YOUR COLLECTION
Hello:
I am very interested in
-Austria 1920 Issued in Braunau
-Burundi 1995 Diplomatic
-Congo ...