The following gripping passport came up by a British couple who contacted me via my website. The email reads as follows. German J-Passport Rudolf Schneeweiss “I have a Deutsches Reich passport dated 1939 stamped with a big red J of…

Joseph Fenwick Consul Bordeaux France, Bordeaux, American Consulate La Maison Fenwick, the first and oldest American Consulate in history, has occupied this site since 1790 in Bordeaux. The building long ago took the name of the American occupant and chief…

General John Churchill Marlborough Marlborough’s career as a soldier and statesman lasted five monarchs’ reigns. His greatest military achievement occurred later in his career; if he died before the age of 50, he would likely be forgotten today. His victories…

Paul Graf von Medem (* January 9, 1800, in Mitau; † January 10, 1854) was a Russian diplomat. Paul Medem Russian Envoy Paul von Medem studied law at the University of Berlin from 1818, where he became a member of…

Passport issued to Frederik Wilhelm von Wedel-Jarlsberg, chamberlain to the Danish king and later a prominent writer, who traveled from Copenhagen to Hanover and Bremen as an emissary of the Chamber of Finance accompanied by four servants. Ogier signed as…

The most unusual passport photo in a valid modern passport Till 1915 passports had no pictures included and even in the early days of the passport photo there were no regulations on the photo itself. All was good as long…

This was the headline of a Spiegel article in 1968. GDR travel passport compulsory Shortly after midnight, the traffic light that clears the way to the GDR border checkpoint at Marienborn jumps from red to “clear”. Bernhard Ruhland, 32, a…

A U.S. Passport, signed by Webster and Andrews, dated the 23rd day of June 1852. Double folio (419 x 279mm), with various subsequent stamps. Aeronaut Inventor passport Andrews Solomon Andrews was a physician by profession, but it was the inventor…

Celebrity Passport Auction Results TOP auction results are Lou Gehrig, Viktor Tsoi, Marilyn Monroe, James Joyce, and Albert Einstein Collectors know to find attractive old passports is difficult but finding celebrity passports is even more challenging. From time to time,…