Passport of the Vice Consul at the Portuguese Embassy in Warsaw Usually, I would not collect such a document as it is “too young” for my collection focus. But then I took a closer look into the pages of this…
US Seaman Protection Certificate 1840 issued by George Bancroft
A friend and fellow collector told me once “Documents with the name BANCROFT on it, are usually related to great US history.” I guess he was right. It was issued by a collector of the District of Boston and Charlestown…
A British Soldier Travels Home From The Battlefield in Spain 1919
A British Soldier Travels Home From The Battlefield in Spain 1919 Meet George Henry Herbert Morton who has no medal card in the Nation Archives records, suggesting that he went overseas too late to qualify for the War or Victory…
Six British King’s & Queen’s Messenger Passports
A Messenger passport is most rare – here you can see six British King’s & Queen’s Messenger passports…and listen to the fantastic story. BEING A MESSENGER MAY BE A DANGEROUS JOB Although modern diplomatic relationships between nations are delicate enough…
Mary Kingsley Was A Fearless Victorian Lady Explorer
Mary Kingsley Was A Fearless Victorian Lady Explorer Imagine it’s 1893 and a young woman, just at age 30, from London wants to travel to the West coast of Africa – Aone! Deep in the heart of Gabon, in what…
Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776–1785
Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776–1785 Benjamin Franklin, the most distinguished scientific and literary American of his age, was the first American diplomat. He served from 1776 to 1778 on a three-person commission to France charged with the critical task…
Nazi Germany Passport issued in Luxembourg
This passport was issued on 17 October 1939 to Michael Flügel, his wife and two children just a few weeks after WWII begun but well before the German occupation of Luxembourg in May 1940. Another great item to my collection…