Early Federal German Foreign Representations
When it comes to passport history, Germany and GDR are a key focus for me. In my collection, I have one of the very first Federal German passports. Same for […]
British Consul Woodhouse in Petrograd 1916
The city of Petrograd was the capital of the Russian Empire from the 18th to the 20th century. Only from 1914 to 1924 it was called Petrograd. For more than […]
The Passport From Princess Natalja Of Montenegro Is Back To It`s Family
By Géraldine Cerf de Dudzeele, Paris – repost from 2013 Passport Princess Natalja Montenegro Natalija Konstantinović was born in Trieste (Italy) in 1882 as the daughter of Alexander Konstantinović and […]
English Passport 1640 with twelve signatures
This is an English passport issued to Sir Thomas Aston on 9th December 1640 to enable him to travel with two servants as he was ‘desirous of spending some tyme […]
Passport of an USSR soldier stationed in GDR
30 years of German reunification Passport USSR soldier GDR Between 350,000 and 500,000 Soviet soldiers were stationed in the GDR – more than anywhere else outside the borders of the […]
An unusual Czechoslovak passport for a courier
An unusual passport for a Czechoslovak military courier for travel from Prague to Kyiv in March 1919 unusual Czechoslovak passport courier Many thanks to Zbyšek Šustek, Slovak Numismatic Society at […]
Free France (France Libre) Diplomatic Passport
Free France and its Free French Forces (French: France Libre et les Forces françaises libres) was the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War, and its military forces, that continued to fight against the Axis powers as an Allied nation, […]
30 Years German Reunification
German Reunification Unbelievable, it is already 30 years ago when Germany East and West reunited. When the wall came down in Nov 1989, I wanted to go to Berlin but […]
US Passport 1886 Congressman Morse
Leopold Morse was a United States Representative from Massachusetts, and this is his 1886 US passport. Morse was born in 1831 in Wachenheim, Germany, and attended the common schools there. […]
Vichy Diplomatic Passport – Ambassador Labonne
Eirik Labonne, born in Paris on October 4, 1888, and died on November 12, 1971, was a French diplomat who began his career just before the First World War. Vichy Diplomatic Passport Labonne Eirik Labonne notably held the following positions: […]