LET PASS OR DIE is an educational + entertaining BOOK about the HISTORY of the PASSPORT. On 350 pages you will find amazing stories + 180 astonishing pictures which are impossible to use today – well, almost… #passport #passporthistory #oldpassport ISBN 978-3-9820864-0-8
How the Passport Became an Improbable Symbol of American Identity The idea of having documents to cross borders is ancient, but when it became popularized in the U.S., it caused quite the stir It was originally a European tradition, not…
Wolfgang von Goethe’s Passport from 1808 to travel to Carlsbad A unique document can currently be seen in the exhibition “Treasures of the Goethe and Schiller Archives” in Weimar: Goethe’s passport, with which the poet took a bathing trip to…
Adult British Passport of a decorated Boy Soldier in First World War First World War trio and documentation to a boy soldier, 1914-15 Star ( NO.12296 RFLMN. A KOOPER 2/ K.R.R.C.), British War Medal, and Victory Medal (R-12296 PTE.A.W. COOPER…
Passport Fees Around The World 2019 Here are the passport fees around the world originally based on an older British Passport Office list. The old (2010) original PDF-file can be downloaded here. Updated data are as following, coming from readers…
A German Democratic Republic Passport 1980 With a Twist This thirty-nine years old travel document is at the first look nothing special. It’s in great shape and has 48 pages instead of 24 pages. The document was issued to a…
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…
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…