This is a Republic of Singapore 1965 Provisional Passport which was the very first passport type after gaining independence in Aug 1965. Nowadays these 1st type is rare to find but I was lucky to find one at a flea…
A very unusual East German passport with plenty of US visas came on my desk. The travel document wa issued 1979 and several times extended till 1993. There are five visas stamped to USA, which proofs the bearer of this…
Passport 1797 Francis II – Last Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation existed for more than 1000 years, from 800/962 to 1806. Emperor Francis II was not only the last Emperor of…
Handwritten Passport – US-Consul Robert Monroe Harrison, Jamaica 1835 Here comes an early passport of the United States of America, issued at the Consulate in Kingston, Jamaica in 1835. The passport is completely handwritten. US Consul in Jamaica was Robert…
Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz Polish Passport from 1948 Kedem Public Auction House Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel is offering in their upcoming auction an outstanding document. Lot 108 is the passport of Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz. The travel document was issued…
A handwritten Heligoland Passport issued at the Government House in 1881 is something outstanding for the passport history of the British Empire. In 1881 the population of the small German archipelago in the North Sea was only 2000 citizens.The islands were at one time Danish, then…
Passport Fees Around The World 2018 Here are the passport fees around the world originally based on a older British Passport Office list. The old (2010) original PDF-file can be downloaded here. Updated data are as following, coming from readers…
Leon Trotsky was a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, second only to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages of Soviet communist rule. But he lost out to Joseph Stalin in the power struggle that followed…
Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley KG GCB PC (17 June 1804 – 15 July 1884), known as The Lord Cowley between 1847 and 1857, was a British diplomat. He served as British Ambassador to France between 1852 and…