Posts Tagged ‘ Art ’

Edite Grinberga – Passports in Art

24 April, 2012
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As I said many times, old passports are some kind of art. Edite brings passports in art… Dear Edite, it`s nice to see what you made with the passports you got from me. Congratulation! “Reisepass” or  “Two Passports”, size 70 x 100cm, oil on canvas, EUR 4300,-. Galerie Friedmann-Hahn  …

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A old passport is “a piece of art”

13 June, 2011
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old italian passport… When I am looking for old passports I alway pay especially attention to the passport picture. They are wonderful, artistic, partly strange and seldom. Look at this picture. Isn’t it beautiful? Nowadays all passport pictures are looking the same as on the new biometric passports with chip…

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Collectors Weekly…

8 April, 2011
Collectors Weekly…

…was asking me to write a guest article, so I made a brief introduction into passport collecting. When it comes to ephemera, there seems to be an interest in just about everything. Even so, passport collecting has only begun to attract widespread attention. I started my collection because I think…

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Famous American Artists…

5 February, 2011

Founded in 1846, the Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum and research complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park and nine research facilities. They have listet some passports of American artists. Follow the individual link to see the documents. Passport (hùjhào) for Mrs. L. H. Palmer…

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WHY collect passports?

28 September, 2010
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Well… Every collector will tell another reasons why to collect passports. I tell you my reasons. History I do collect mainly old passports and they tell a story. A history of their owner and a history of their travelling. Please imagine who was travelling just 100 years ago to countries…

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