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2013 (1)

06/10 The Last Nazi Germany Passport?

2014 (14)

06/16 US History – Philippines Islands Passport
07/06 United States Passport Of The Philippines Islands 1930
07/28 Diplomatic ID-Card of a captain from the German NS Navy
08/03 Isabella Bird and her travels
08/19 German Nazi Passport With “Stamped” Middle Name SARA
08/28 The Evolution of the Australian Passport
09/19 Ruth Bielaski Shipley – US Passport Office
09/28 US Passport signed by Minister Rufus King 1798
10/01 A Queens Messenger by LTC Kimmins
11/09 25 Years Fall Of The Wall – A Unique Passport
12/04 Denmark Sea Passport 1823
12/07 Captain Henry Rodolph Davies And His Chinese Passport
12/13 Garry Davis – First Citizen Of The World
12/19 International Air Travel in the 1930s

2015 (48)

01/01 German Jew – Forced to Leave Switzerland
01/06 Colony Of North Borneo
01/15 British King’s Courier Passport Of Ernest Frederick Gye
01/27 A Readers Story – Charles Castle (1813-1886) And His Passports
02/02 Baseball: Lou Gehrig Passport for $263k
02/14 Estonian Nansen Passport
02/18 Appointment Letter Edouard Drouyn de Lhuys – Minister Of Foreign Affairs
02/20 Diplomatic Passport France 1880
02/23 Olympic Gold Medal Winner and Wife Saved by Wallenberg
02/26 Palestine Certificate Of Naturalization 1942
03/04 The US Passport of Global Businessman William Lidgerwood
04/02 Passport Of Professional Footballer Paul Parker – Manchester United
04/06 MUSSOLINI’S ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
04/09 AMERICAN SEAMAN’S PROTECTION CERTIFICATE
04/20 United Nation Passport Oppenheimer 1982
05/11 Swiss Protection Letter – Escaping The Holocaust In Budapest
05/17 18th Century Protection Letter For Jewish Family
06/01 Belgium Diplomatic Passports 1954
06/15 Immigration and Emigration in the 19th Century
06/18 Vidkun Quisling Diplomatic Passport Not Sold
06/20 Surrender On Demand – Varian Fry In Nazi Occupied France
06/23 On Top Of The World – Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
07/01 Damien Hirst – British Visitor’s Passport Sold At Auction
07/10 Passport To Freedom by Miriam Talalay about her Grandfather
07/13 US Passport With HINDENBURG LZ129 Stamp
07/20 Nazi Passport Law – The big Red J for Jew
07/26 British Ships Passport – Island Of Jersey 1753
08/01 Diplomatic Passport signed by King George II of England
08/07 East German Passport 1958 – USA Visa
08/14 Nazi Service Passport 1943 Capt Loewe
08/20 Italian Diplomatic Passport 1943 With A Huge Watermark
08/28 Another Nazi Service Passport
08/31 A Passport To Freedom Organized By Varian Fry
09/11 The History of the All-Palestine Government
09/14 Royal French Passport 1785 for US Envoy John Lamb
09/23 Franz Kafka Passport At Auction (update)
10/06 German Empire Passport With SLESVIG Stamp
10/15 Archibald Philip 5th Earl Rosebery 1894
11/02 A Boy In Nazi Occupied Netherlands
11/05 Third Reich Diplomatic Passport Sophie Schulze-Bernett
11/08 U.S. Ships Passports Behind Expectations
11/11 East German Border Control Case
11/14 GDR Diplomatic Passport COMECON 1959
11/25 Yugoslavian Collective Passport For 10 Students
12/01 One Of The Last German Third Reich Passports Found
12/04 United States Passport 1912 With Passport Picture
12/10 German Nazi Alien Passport With Stamp EVACUATED
12/17 The United States Passport Picture Of An Guggenheim Employee

2016 (61)

01/12 The Passport of Uganda’s Dictator Idi Amin from 1963
01/15 Ever heard of a FIUME Passport? No? Then read further
01/19 Fake United Nations Diplomatic Passport
01/22 British Passport – Government Of Bermuda Issued 1962
01/28 French Passport Issued By The National Assembly 1791
02/03 Very Rare Republic Of Texas Passport Issued 1836
02/09 British Passport Signed By Ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold
02/13 US Passport 1954 – Territory Of Hawaii
02/16 United States Passport 1902 issued at the Embassy in London
03/08 British Passport 1897 – Consul in Jerusalem
03/13 Diplomatic Passport For German East Africa 1891
03/22 Queens Messengers • History and Current Status
03/25 100 Years Passport Photo
03/27 Missing First Tibetan Passport Found Again In Nepal In 2004
04/05 British Passport 1803 Legation Paris Signed Talleyrand
04/09 St Louis Passenger’s Passport – Jewish Refugees Nobody Wanted
04/23 Passports Of British Consul Arthur Woodhouse
04/25 Chiune Sugihara UNESCO Project
05/09 Passports Of German Field Marshal – Erhard Milch
06/10 Passports Of Football Legend PELE
06/12 Two Passports of THE GREATEST Muhammad Ali At Auction
06/16 Unusual Jewish Escape Route In 1940
06/18 German Passport of Governor General Dr. Hans Frank
06/28 Swiss History – A Helvetic Republic Passport 1798
07/09 Pass and Service book 1863 for a Maid
07/14 Passport Carl Szokoll – Stauffenberg – Valkyrie – 20 July Plot 1944
07/25 French Passport Issued In Spain During The Civil War
08/01 Lutz/Wallenberg Life Saving Passes. A Testimony
08/10 Imperial Korean Passport
08/13 Third Reich Service Passport – Musicologist Prof. Schünemann
08/21 US Passport 1947 Colonel Edward Dehne – What A Man!
09/13 NASA Astronaut Passports – Slayton
09/20 German Prussian Passport 1922 – Palestine Wanderer
09/23 Netherlands Minister To Japan – Chinese Passport 1929
09/26 Swiss Passport issued in East Berlin, East Germany
09/30 German History – Departmental Passport 1951 New York
10/02 The Life Of a US Diplomatic Courier
10/05 A WWII Passport Forger – People Will Die
10/08 British diplomat defied Gestapo
10/09 The Passport History Of Siam and Thailand
10/23 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. – Hollywood Actor & Highly Decorated WWII Officer
10/23 German Empire Passport – Kingdom Of Saxony 1892
10/23 Girl with dog passport photo | Germany 1916
10/24 USA – Legation London 1861 – signed by Charles Francis Adams
10/27 A remarkable Czechoslovak diplomatic passport and its bearer´s destiny
11/04 Pope Pius IX Passport – Issued At The Vatican 1847
11/07 A Rare Find! NS-German Passports Issued in Ljubljana
11/10 An Extraordinary Liechtenstein Passport With A History
11/15 Jewish Austrian Passports For Two Families Going To Palestine
11/18 This is the diplomatic passport of Raoul Wallenberg
11/19 Passport of Magda Lutz the Wife of a Hero
11/23 Karol Wojtyla – Pope John Paul II – Diplomatic Passport As Cardinal
11/26 Passports In Art – Yanko Tihov – Passports Are Art!
12/02 German Passport 1938 issued in Ljubljana
12/05 Ever heard of a Fiume Passport?
12/09 African American Passport History – Who was Walter Foster?
12/12 Kings messenger badge 1820 sold at auction
12/14 Passport Dr. Heineken, Hanseatic City of Bremen
12/16 Muhammad Ali 1976-1981 Replacement Passport SOLD
12/21 World War II British Courier’s Passport – Charles Bonham-Carter
12/30 Rare US Group Passport 1852 – Consulate Malta

2017 (77)

01/13 German Passport – State Of Baden 1947 – Unusual!
01/16 German Empire Passport Braunschweig
01/18 Beautiful Mexican Passport 1917 Issued In New York
01/20 British Passport 1869 in leather wallet and with rare visa
01/23 ANDORRA 700 Years Anniversary Type
01/29 German Passport – Danish Military Mission
01/29 Carrie Fisher – Princess Leia – Passport At Auction
02/06 German Empire Passport 1892 Singapore
02/10 Visa 1940 Issued By Warsaw Ghetto Commander Department
02/11 US Passport General Henry G. Thomas
03/31 Jewish Travel Document SUGIHARA
04/03 See the passports to countries that no longer exist
04/04 Grand Duchy Of Saxony 1919 – German Empire
04/04 Government Of Palestine 1924 Early & Rare Emergency Laissez Passer
04/10 North German Confederation Passport 1875
04/17 The Wife Of A War Criminal – Mary Veesenmayer
04/20 British Passport – Tanganyika Territory
04/24 British Passport 1892 in leather wallet
04/25 Armenian Genocide – German Ambassador von Wangenheim
04/30 State Of Louisiana Passport 1836
05/03 US Diplomatic Passports 1952
05/06 Third Reich Courier Travels On Diplomatic Passport
05/19 Colony of Cyprus 1925 – British Passport – Family of Five
05/21 German Jewish Passport With J-Stamp Issued In Jerusalem
06/13 German Family Passport Tilsit – East Prussia
06/19 East German Territory Passport • Glogau 1933 • Lower Silesia
06/23 THE ORIGINAL FRENCH ID OF ZEV JABOTINSKY SOLD FOR $25k
06/27 Passport Pictures At The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
06/30 US Consul Geist In Nazi Germany
07/03 Y. Montand and S. Signoret Passports
07/05 Belgian Passport 1927 Countess Marie Elisabeth d’Oultremont
07/08 German Jew fleeing to Domenican Republic 1938
07/17 Marshal Philippe Petain Passport
07/20 Should you frame a historical passport and if so, how?
07/23 German Empire Passport Issued At Their Consulate In Moscow
07/26 Black/African/Caribbean/Black British Passports
07/29 British Prime Minister Callaghan Passport At Auction
08/03 Relief and Rehabilitation Administration History
08/07 JFK Assassination and Lee Harveys Passport with East German stamp
08/15 NESSELRODE KARL – Russian Count and Diplomat
08/29 Lady Diana Cooper’s Unusual Passport Photo
08/31 Scottish Passport For The National Museum of Scotland
09/01 Passports of the infamous British Kray twin brothers
09/03 The Dutch Passport of Anton Frederik Philips issued 1915
09/06 Fantastic Mexican Passport 1941 For A Beautiful Woman
09/09 What should I do if my paper collections have damage?
09/12 German Boy to North America in1855
09/16 Passports of the legendary Rolling Stones
09/18 British Passport 1953 – The Island of St. Helena – Very rare
09/21 Robert R. Livingston issued US passport, Paris 1804
10/03 Hunting Eichmann – MGM – Operation Finale
10/04 Organization Of American States – Travel Document
10/06 US Passport 1886 Legation London
10/06 Another Article For The Ephemera Journal On Historical Passports
10/09 Israeli Diplomatic Passport 1965 of Zeev Rotem
10/15 Polish Passport Of Karol Wojtyła (Pope John Paul II)
10/18 GDR Diplomatic Passport Schalck-Golodkowski
10/21 Island of Jersey Passport 1835 issued by Major- Gen. Archibald Campbell
10/25 A true passport historical treasure – Heligoland passport 1873
10/28 Passports for Senators and Representatives in Congress
10/30 Ministry of State Security (MfS) Memorial Museum
10/31 Sugihara UNESCO Memory World Program – Update
10/31 One of the earliest German Democratic Republic passports
11/06 German Passport – Allied Occupation Of The Rhineland
11/10 Passport issued by the British consul in Hankou for a Missionary
11/19 German Cameroon Passport – Colonial Germany
11/23 French Passport 1602
12/02 Ever hear about a Kiribati passport?
12/05 A Collectors Story – Rita Hayworth
12/08 German passport Swiss issued Philippines Islands 1921
12/11 Francis Gary Powers passport – the real-life Bridge of Spies
12/14 Chinese passport 1924 Russian immigration – Manchukuo
12/17 Excellencies – The Württemberg Embassy in Berlin 1803-1937
12/20 Diplomatic Passport Austria 1935 – Voting Stamps Anschluss
12/23 British Diplomatic Passport For Attache Nigel Law 1914
12/27 Passport Principality of Hohenzollern 1807
12/30 Passbrief (Passport) 1793 Holy Roman Empire

2018 (65)

01/06 German Abwehr Officer Who Saved Jews
01/07 NASA Astronaut John Young has died Jan 5, 2018
01/09 Ready for Inspection: An Interview with Valentin Groebner
01/09 American Revolution Passport 1779
01/12 Under Swiss Protection – Accounts from Wartime
01/14 Travel In Wartime Germany With A False Passport
01/20 Unique Alien Passport – German Empire – Fremden-Pass
01/23 German Empire Passport – Saxe-Meiningen 1872
01/25 Queen’s Messenger Silver-Gilt Badge & Appointment
01/28 The Passport of Germany’s First President
01/31 Prince Heinrich XV. Reuss zu Greiz – Passport 1814
02/10 Schutz-Jude Abraham Salomon travelling to Frankfurt 1746
02/16 United States Confederate Passport Of Georgia 1863
02/21 Giacomo Casanova’s Passport
02/26 Swiss Passport Issued By Swiss Poet and Politician Gottfried Keller
03/06 USSR Passport, Ukraine 1925 Jewish Girl and Man To Palestine
03/10 Swissair Chief Pilot Ernst Nyffenegger Passport
03/13 Passports and Identity – Don’t you know who I am?
03/15 Francis Scott Fitzgerald US Family Passport 1920s
03/18 A Map Of Travel Distances – London To The World
03/19 Russian Passport Applications From Hawaii
03/30 Richard Ellis’s Life In 15 Passports
04/02 The Diplomatic Passport Of US-Consul Fishers Wife 1931
04/11 Republic of Texas 1828 – important passport regulation
04/14 Iceland Diplomatic Passport – Wife Of Minister
04/17 USA Daniel Webster – Secretary of State Letter – Passport and Citizenship
04/20 Facts: The North Korean (DPRK) Passport
04/20 Swedish Diplomat Per Anger saved thousands of Jews in Budapest
04/26 Zonal Travel Permit 1954 for occupied Germany
05/01 Israel Diplomatic Passport 1951 Knesset member Avriel
05/07 Passport Conferences & Territory Issues by the League of Nations
05/12 Kingdom of Saxony passport 1910 issued by the war department
05/21 An East German Passport – Wolf Biermann – Singer-Songwriter-Dissident
05/27 Royal Passports – Prince Alfons of Bavaria
06/02 The passport of a Geologist and Lieutenant in WWI
06/05 African-American Passport For Germany
06/11 The Passport of East German Minister for Ore Mining
06/14 Passport 1941 issued by SS in occupied Hague
06/18 Passport of a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General
06/24 A very special Free City of Danzig Passport – Take a look and learn why
06/27 RAMONES Punk Rocker Passport
06/30 Genghis Khan the Inventor of the diplomatic passport
07/09 German Passport 1940 Tientsin China
07/20 Necessity Of Passports For Alien Women Immigrating To USA
07/24 Austrian passport issued in Shanghai
07/28 Union of South Africa Passport issued in1923
08/06 East German Passport issued in 1989 with visa from 1995
08/14 United Nations Diplomatic Visa On Benjamin Franklin Passport
08/16 The passport of Prof. Dr. Franz Böhm – Luxembourg Agreement
08/20 British Passport 1859 with very unusual customized wallet
08/26 United States Passport – Island of Puerto Rico 1926
09/20 Italian Social Republic Passport
09/23 Market Flash – Historical Passports
10/04 British Ambassador to France 1852-1867: Lord Cowley issued passport
10/11 Leon Trotsky & wife – Mexican passport 1936
10/18 Heligoland Passport • Government House 1881
10/20 Rebbe Aharon Rokeach of Belz Polish Passport from 1948
10/23 Handwritten Passport – US-Consul Robert Monroe Harrison, Jamaica 1835
10/27 Passport 1797 Francis II • Last Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire
10/30 East German passport with several USA visas
11/06 Republic of Singapore 1965 Provisional Passport
11/23 Beautiful US passport issued by the State of New Jersey 1849
12/06 Passport issued by Count Friedrich von Zeppelin 1828
12/21 Hugh Hefner several passports at US auction
12/26 Opera Star Enrico Caruso Passport 1919 Issued In New York

2019 (76)

01/07 Diplomatic Passports of Gough Whitlam
01/16 The Passport Of Captain Francis Garratt
01/19 Nansen Passport 1923 For 20 Years Old Latvian Illiterate
01/25 British Passport, Secret Service Agent’s Wife
01/29 Scottish passport 1857 for Cuba
02/02 Forced Laborer Third Reich Alien Passport 1944
02/06 British Passport – Colony Of Trinidad & Tobago 1960 – Aircraft Engineer
02/11 Passport signed by Elizabeth I, Queen of England 1595
02/14 Last Visa Of The French Embassy In East Berlin
02/22 Free Hanseatic Republics Passport Issued At London 1840
02/25 Did you ever hear of an IGAD Passport?
02/28 The passport of a STASI unofficial collaborator – Code name PRIMUS
03/03 Nazi Germany Passport issued in Luxembourg
03/06 Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776–1785
03/09 Mary Kingsley Was A Fearless Victorian Lady Explorer
03/13 Kings and Queens Messenger Passports
03/16 A British Soldier Travels Home From The Battlefield in Spain 1919
03/22 Passport of the Vice Consul at the Portuguese Embassy in Warsaw
03/26 East German Passport 1980 With a Twist
04/08 Adult British Passport of a decorated Boy Soldier in First World War
04/12 Wolfgang von Goethe’s Passport to Carlsbad
04/16 How the Passport Became an Improbable Symbol of American Identity
04/26 Is this the last passport issued by East Germany?
04/28 Unique Croatian collective passport from February 1941
05/01 Louis XIII King of France Passport 1636 – Peace Congress Cologne
05/07 Senator Absalom Willis Robertson Special Passport
05/09 State of Louisiana Passport 1826 signed by Henry Johnson
05/13 Three passports of former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson
05/19 Chinese Taiping Rebel Pass sold at auction for $7000
06/07 Ferdinand Ludwig von Zeppelin Passport 1828
06/11 ALLIED MILITARY TRAVEL PERMITS FOR GERMANY 1947-1951
06/13 USSR Passport for Mother and Son issued in Berlin 1934
06/16 Valdemar Langlet saved Jewish Lives during the Holocaust
06/26 Burma and Congo visa in East German passport 1956
07/07 Ephemera Society UK: Collecting old passports
07/10 Stasi and RAF: French Passport of Ulrike Meinhof
07/15 Bishop of London – William Juxon issued passport 1640
07/17 Tsar Nicholas II Passport – Anniversary Of His Murder
07/18 German Diplomat Franz Krapf Passport – Das Amt und die Vergangenheit
07/20 Passport collectors market 2019 and forecast
07/23 Passports of an East German Nuclear Scientist
07/26 A letter 1854 from the first US Consul in Montreal
07/31 Alexander von Doernberg – Diplomatic Passport
08/04 German life in Kobe & Shanghai 1934 -1940
08/09 Stories of Passports From Extinct Countries
08/12 Passport of a man exhibited in the last human zoo
08/18 Marvelous USSR Diplomatic Passports 1941/69
09/03 NS-Germany Child Passport W.Kaczynski
09/07 US Seamen Passport 1943 with border stamps
09/11 A Passport for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
09/15 German Puppet State Passport Krolestwo Polskie
09/19 Rare Liechtenstein passport 1915
09/22 Man wins court battle to reinstate birthplace Palestine on his passport
09/25 The Canadian Passport – Early Years
10/05 HAITI 1853 PASSPORT EMPEROR FAUSTIN
10/07 Passport of Prince Reuss – Heinrich XXXVII
10/11 A readers question which became most interesting
10/16 Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story
10/21 French Passport Of A Famous Lady
10/22 When do YOU start collecting beautiful old passports?
10/29 Bahama Island Passport 1945 Colonial Office
11/01 US Passport issued in 1919 – Embassy in Tokyo
11/04 Japanese-American in U.S. Concentration Camps
11/07 US Passport Sue Voss issued in Havana, Cuba
11/09 From Pirates to Passports: A Timeless Commitment to Service
11/10 Meet Elizabeth Peet McIntosh – The OSS Spy
11/14 History of “gasoline baths” at the border
11/19 German Ministerialpass Ruth Doerner
11/22 Swiss Canton Lucerne Passport Booklet 1914
11/28 US Passport issued in Guam 1956 – USAF Officer
12/01 US Passport 1796 issued by James Monroe as Ambassador to France
12/06 German Passport 1949 of former NS Propaganda Photographer
12/10 Elizabeth I – Queen of England Passport
12/14 Passport of the last German veteran of WWI
12/26 German Passport Of A Jewish Consul Widow
12/30 United States Passport 1858 – Signed By Lewis Cass

2020 (116)

01/02 The passport of Nobel Prize Laureate Ivan Pavlov
01/03 Jewish Names in German Passports
01/05 Collection of six Neil Armstrong US passports
01/09 Fritz Wiedemann once Hitler’s personal adjutant and later Consul General
01/12 German Passport 1919 – Treaty Commission Versailles
01/16 Sample folder German passports of the Third Reich
01/19 German Passport – US Consulate Moscow 1915
01/22 Nansen Passport 1925 – Free City Of Danzig
02/02 Federal German passport with a hidden message
02/05 Iranian Jewish Family of Five travels to Israel
02/08 A nice set of two Dutch East-Indies passports
02/11 William Pinkney – US Minister in Great Britain – Signed Passport 1807
02/14 First International Passport Europe 1953
02/17 George John Gordon Appointment as Ambassador to Switzerland in 1855
02/21 100 Years Passport Photo
02/22 Isabella of Portugal – Safe Conduct from 1529
02/26 Passports issued by the Governors of Georgia
02/29 US Passport 1796 David Humphreys
03/04 East German Deprivation of Citizenship 1975
03/08 Louis Mountbatten 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
03/12 German Ambassador to the USA – Friedrich von Gerolt
03/14 German Alien Passport 1945 | Chinese Student
03/16 The passport of writer Victoria Ocampo
03/20 Adventurous life of a chambermaid in Japan
03/23 Protectorate Bohemia-Moravia J-Passport 1942
03/24 Passports of Southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823
03/26 German diplomatic passport 1911 of a court lady
03/31 US passport of a woman with a pretty unique cover
04/03 A German Empire Alsace-Lorraine passport not seen before
04/05 The Passports of Sir Thomas C. Spenser-Wilkinson
04/07 Passport of Hollywood Icon Doris Day at auction
04/09 Conservation of your collectibles
04/15 Lost documents of the USSR – A yellow ticket
04/18 German passport returned to family 80 years later
04/21 The smiling girl murdered by the Nazis
04/24 USSR Passport of an Afghanistan War Participant
04/27 Sergei Chekhonin USSR passport + French ID card
04/30 Fascinating Document Set of an German Officer
05/06 The British Visitors Passport – The Simplicity Of A Travel Document
05/09 A rare travel document from the Cold War and Occupation of Germany
05/12 A Benjamin Franklin passport in my mailbox
05/18 James V – King of Scots – Passport
05/21 Giovanni Mocenigo as Doge of Venice – Passport
05/24 John Hancock – President of Congress – Manuscript
05/27 The last visa stamped by East Germany (DDR)
05/30 US Passport 1900 issued at the Embassy in Paris
06/02 The concept and psychology of collecting
06/05 The Passport of Aviation Pioneer Hans Bongers
06/08 A treasure found hidden in a commode
06/11 Life-saving visa by Chiune Sugihara
06/14 Passport Collectors Market Reflections
06/21 German New Guinea Passport
06/25 8 Billion People On Earth – 12 On The Moon And 1 Passport
07/01 Travel Document Soviet Occupation of Germany
07/04 African American WWII Seaman Passport
07/07 Diplomatic Passport set of US Consul John E. Kehl
07/10 Appointment Credentials Consul Bohr
07/13 Danzig-Germany passports for a couple
07/14 The Grand Tour – Young Lords Travelling Abroad
07/24 SS Officer Passport – Karl von Krempler
07/25 Visit at the Political Archive – Federal Foreign Office
07/26 Visit at the Political Archive – Federal Foreign Office II
07/26 Special Passport For US Consul Keena In Chihuahua
07/29 Danzig Senate Passport 1935
08/01 Eartha Kitt Original Passport 1950s
08/02 German Passport for a French Nobleman escaping the French Revolution
08/05 Clara Barton – Highlights of an Extraordinary Life
08/07 Japanese Mexican survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
08/10 Federal German Passport 1954 with unusual entry
08/13 The Diplomatic Passport of Georg F. Duckwitz
08/13 German History – The Rise And Fall Of The Berlin Wall
08/15 Guernsey passport 1916 for a young girl
08/16 For freedom one may even fake passports
08/17 Fantasy and Camouflage Passports
08/19 Scarce US Consulate Lisbon Passport 1943
08/21 Passport For Military Personnel & Dependents
08/24 The old German Embassy in Washington
08/27 Congressman George V. Hansen – Iran Hostage Crisis
08/29 Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz Passport, Zurich 1948
09/01 Goering’s passport pulled from auction
09/07 Collective Passport For Young People (UK)
09/11 French Diplomatic Passport, Duke of Richelieu
09/14 A young woman visits Bratislava in March 1945
09/17 Swiss Journeyman Book & Passport 1879
09/20 British passport 1814 provisional Belgian government (Napoleonic Wars)
09/23 Canada passport for traveling to USA only
09/26 Royal Belgian passports of young Prince/Princess
09/29 Vichy Diplomatic Passport – Ambassador Labonne
10/02 US Passport 1886 Congressman Morse
10/03 30 Years German Reunification
10/05 Free France (France Libre) Diplomatic Passport
10/08 An unusual Czechoslovak passport for a courier
10/11 Passport of an USSR soldier stationed in GDR
10/14 English Passport 1640 with twelve signatures
10/16 The Passport From Princess Natalja Of Montenegro Is Back To It`s Family
10/19 British Consul Woodhouse in Petrograd 1916
10/22 Early Federal German Foreign Representations
10/29 A Passport issued by King George III
11/02 Jew denied travel due to missing J-stamp
11/06 Passport of Italian 30-days King Umberto II
11/09 Mata Hari (Margaretha G. Zelle) Identity Papers
11/12 Participant ID Potsdam Conference
11/15 East German Passport with rare DPRK Visas
11/18 German Passport issued in the Polish Corridor
11/22 Swiss Journeyman book of Canton Schwyz 1874
11/25 Italian Socialist Republic Passport, 1944 Berlin
11/28 German Empire passport with an fantastic photo
12/01 Bulgarian Nansen passport for multiple people
12/04 Cuba Diplomatic Passport – Prime Minister & Wife
12/12 A North Korean Passport Is A Rare Collectible
12/16 Rare Ukrainian Soviet Republic Passport 1925 for Brazil
12/19 The Passport of Zionist Leader Vladimir Jabotinsky
12/21 A unique and rare Refugee Travel Document issued for Peru
12/25 Rare Turkey Republic Passport 1927 Mustafa Atatürk
12/29 Wonder Woman trashed her old passport and someone found it (video)
12/31 Collectors may pay a lot for old passports

2021 (105)

01/06 Bremen passport 1919 shows travel to occupied territories
01/13 Passport 1792 issued by Francis James Jackson
01/16 Vatican City passport 1934 for a Cardinal
01/19 How to read old German language handwriting on passports?
01/22 The passport of a Liverpool football player
01/25 Very rare passport for the Second Vatican Council
01/28 The East German Embassy in Washington DC
02/03 Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli – Caruso Secondo
02/06 Hitlers Intelligence Chief – Walter Schellenberg
02/10 British Jamaica passport 1953 for a soldier
02/13 Jewish Escape to Shanghai and US-Immigration
02/16 Polish Diplomatic Passport – Consuls’ Daughter
02/19 Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Passport
02/22 US Legation Paris passport 1814 Talleyrand
02/25 The King’s Messenger passport of Cyril Fraser
02/28 German Service Passport – Commercial Attache
03/03 A German passport with unusual border stamps
03/09 Did you ever heard of a Seiyun passport?
03/12 Former GDR Diplomats sacked after reunification
03/15 Spanish Guinea passport of a F1 Racing Driver
03/18 Juan Pugol Garcia a double agent enabling D-day
03/21 S. Steinlein – The last GDR ambassador in Paris
03/24 Paul Scharffenberg – Chancellor of Tianjin/Nanjing
03/27 A German Nun on her way to Argentina in 1923
03/30 ID-Documents of a WWII Blitz Ambulance Driver
04/03 Early German passport 1952 issued in Pretoria
04/06 Sovereign Military Order of Malta – Passport
04/09 Gisela Pelzl – A GDR Sports Physician Passport
04/12 Passport colors and what they mean
04/18 East German Passport from Karl-Marx Stadt
04/21 Lady Georgiana Grey & her Servant James Stiles
04/24 Emergence of the GDR: People’s Congresses
04/27 A fantastic GDR DIPLOMATIC passport from 1956
04/30 Stasi Spy and CIA Double Agent Werner Stiller
05/03 GDR Secret Diplomat & Spy Herrmann v. Berg
05/06 Diplomatic Passport Douglas MacArthur II
05/09 Early Malta passport photos rescued & archived
05/12 Sweden: Ambassador for the Netherlands 1614
05/15 A first hand GDR Service passport story
05/16 Passports, Profiteers, Police – A Swiss war secret
05/18 Walther Ulbricht – The papers of the wall builder
05/21 A pretty rare passport of Transnistria
05/24 Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur’s Passport
05/27 Adolph von Menzel – Diplomatic passport 1842
05/29 The international Congo Conference – Berlin 1885
05/30 Large Grand Duchy of Oldenburg Passport 1864
06/02 US Passport 1915 – Curtiss Aeroplane Company
06/05 Warsaw Pact travel during the Cold War 1975-89
06/08 Anonymous – A Woman in Berlin 1945 – Diary
06/11 US passport 1953 – European Command General
06/13 Heinrich Barth in Central Africa 1850-1855
06/16 Israeli Passport Invalid For Germany
06/20 Ferdinand von Bredow murdered by the Nazis
06/24 German East Africa Colony 1885 – Carl Peters
06/28 Two passports of an USAF airman in Middle East
07/01 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Consular Passport
07/04 GDR ID-Card Stalinstadt (DDR-Museum in Pirna)
07/06 German Passport 1937 Koenigsberg
07/08 The South Sea Colony German New Guinea
07/12 Travel Document Soviet Occupation Berlin 1947
07/16 French passport 1789 for a Belgian Diplomat
07/21 The German Colonial Empire and its Aftermaths
07/26 A unique Bohemia and Moravia Passport 1939
08/01 US Congressman John Hans Krebs Passport
08/04 Early East Germany 1950s Passports
08/07 The man behind the pseudonym Marten Tjaden
08/10 Interzonal Train D151 – 13 Aug 1961 – Berlin Wall
08/13 Josef Brueck – Kindertransport 1939
08/14 MfS passport control at the inner-German border
08/19 Canada – Special Vimy Pilgrimage Passport 1936
08/22 Romanian Minister murdered by the Iron Guards
08/25 A modern German passport with a surprise
08/28 German Passport 1646 – Duchess of Hesse
08/31 What traveling in medieval England was like
09/03 Sigmund Freud’s BOGUS British Passport
09/06 Beautiful Luxemburg passport 1914 with photo
09/09 Principality of Monaco – Charles III Passport 1883
09/15 Very rare Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg passport
09/18 German Passport issued in Haifa 1937
09/21 Joseph Pitcairn US Consular Passport Hamburg
09/24 United States Civil War Soldier Passport 1865
09/27 Celebrity Passport Auction Results
09/30 Aeronaut and Inventor S. Andrews Passport 1852
10/03 GDR travel. Passport compulsory. Germany now a foreign country
10/06 The most unusual passport photo in a valid modern passport
10/09 Passport French Ambassador Copenhagen 1757
10/11 Paul von Medem – Russian Envoy in Vienna 1842
10/14 General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
10/21 German J-Passport of Dr. Rudolf Schneeweiss
10/24 French Colonialism, Travel Order & Passport 1852
10/28 A German passport of an Italian adventurer 1751
10/28 German Soldier Diary – American Revolution
10/31 Passport, Free Hanseatic City of Luebeck 1841
11/09 The East German passport of an Interflug-Pilot
11/13 LET PASS OR DIE – Passport History Book
11/16 US Passport Legation Switzerland – Nicholas Fish
11/21 Brigadier General and Actor James Stewart
12/04 Passport for Captain George Younghusband
12/09 Early 15th Century passport (Safe Conduct)
12/11 Passports: From Paper to High-Tech Booklet by Tom Topol
12/15 Joel Barlow – American Writer and Diplomat
12/18 East Germanys last defense minister H. Kessler
12/21 American Revolution Passport 1779
12/25 US Philippines Island Booklet 1929, Gov. Davis
12/29 The Pass Tokens of German Southwest Africa

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01/01 Passport Johann Philipp von Schönborn 1658
01/08 Sir Anselm Adornes – Ambassador to Persia 1474
01/10 The History and Importance of Passports
01/12 Former President of Texas – Handwritten Passport
01/16 Papal State Passport Ercole Consalvi 1818
01/20 Louis Joseph Prince of Conde Passport 1797
01/27 Samuel Colt Passports are American History
01/31 United States Pilgrimage Passport
02/03 The Pilgrimage of Gold Star Mothers
02/06 Kings Messenger Henry Francis Angold
02/12 German passport valid only for Saarland
02/16 Konrad Adenauer – Chancellor ID
02/19 A masterpiece of a passport forger
02/23 Jewish Agency For Palestine In Berlin
02/26 German Passport Tientsin – China
03/01 A very special United States passport
03/04 GDR Diplomatic Passport Prof. Doernberg
03/08 Richard Holbrooke • A remarkable Diplomat
03/11 Grand Duchy of Finland Passport 1865
03/12 Danzig passport video • US Immigration visa
03/13 Hugo Miranda • Senator of the Republic of Chile
03/17 Minckwitz Saxony Passport 1842
03/22 Want to buy a really expensive passport?
03/22 QNI • Golden Passports and a Professor
03/26 Diplomatic Passport Of Sylvestre Ntibantunganya
03/29 Yugoslavian Passport History 1945-1992 (Video)
04/04 Anna Pavlova • First Ballerina On World Tour
04/11 Andorra Passport 1942 with color photo
04/12 Diplomatic Passport Reich Physician SS & Police
04/13 Arthur Henderson – Nobel Peace Prize Passport
04/16 The British Passport Of Lady Lilly Jones
04/20 Beautiful and rare Haiti passport 1955
04/21 Rare Persia Passport 1911
04/22 Frederic Leighton and his Travels in 19th Century
04/24 Iraq Diplomatic Passport – Al-Bakr Presidency
04/27 Variety Artiste Daisy Weston travels to Finland and Russia in 1911
04/29 NS German Passport – Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia – Kaschau
04/30 East German couple traveling to Cuba
05/02 USSR Diplomatic Passport – Igor Y. Andropov
05/04 Diplomatic Passport of Eduard Schewardnadze
05/06 A Road Trip with a German passport in the 1970s
05/08 Military-ID USSR Officer – Stalingrad
05/10 The passport of German actor/director W. Lukschy
05/12 Diplomatic Passport WWII B-26 Bomber-Pilot
05/14 Book: The Soviet Passport by Albert Baiburin
05/16 Albert Göring post-war passport
05/18 Passport 1756 For American Indians
05/20 East German Passport 1983 with unusual visas
05/22 East Germany’s surprisingly open travel treaties
05/24 Native American UK Alien Registration Card
05/27 Concentration Camp Inmate becomes Nuremberg Trial-Translator
05/30 Boxing Legend Rocky Marciano • Passport 1965
06/04 The passports of Carl Lutz – A Swiss Hero
06/08 German Southwest Africa – Native Passport
06/12 The Soviet Army in the GDR – Service Passport
06/16 The first Passport of Federal Germany?
06/18 Benito Mussolini Passport 1922
06/20 My German Third Reich passport found in Shanghai
06/22 Swiss Collective Passport 1951
06/25 Early Australian Passport – New South Wales
06/30 Agnes Schneider – From Clerk to US Consul
07/01 Dictator Ceausescu – Son’s Passport
07/02 Unusual Austrian Post WWII-Passport
07/04 Gijsbert Karel Count van Hogendorp
07/06 Walter A. Fallon and Eastman Kodak Company
07/08 World record: The “fattest” passport
07/10 German Courier Ministerialpass – Barbarossa
07/13 East German Passport Of A Dancer Traveling To Iraq
07/15 The thickest passports in history
07/16 Passport Of A Titanic Survivor
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07/19 Selected Documents For Your Collection
07/20 Germany remembers the plot to kill Hitler
07/20 Ernst Munzinger Passport – 20 July Hitler Plot
07/23 War Time Swiss Passport 1942 Berlin
07/25 Unusual German-Austria Passport 1919
07/27 Passport Collector Market Flash
07/28 The Forger (Der Passfälscher), True Story
08/01 Australian Cold War Passport, Berlin 1960
08/02 Duchess of Windsor Passport 1966
08/04 Ambassador R. W. Child Signed Passport
08/05 eBay Lawsuit – You Must Watch This!
08/08 Austrian doctor stripped of title by Nazis
08/11 The passport of Nikola Tesla 1883
08/14 Prof. Planyavsky, Vienna Philharmonic
08/18 East German Passport 1993 to Ukraine
08/19 Fritz Bauer – Nazi Criminals Prosecution
08/22 Danzig Passport used in Kindertransport
08/25 Churchills Honorary Citizenship/Passport
08/28 E.L.Richardson-Ambassador-Watergate
09/01 The First African American Diplomat
09/05 World Citizen Number One – Garry Davis
09/09 Maj Gen Andre Brewster – Boxer Rebellion
09/17 Espionage – Treason with Death
09/21 British Passport – State of Antigua 1976
09/26 Joseph Fenwick – First consular post in US History
09/27 Book Review – The United States Passport (Past, Present, Future)
09/29 Rare Passport Grand Duchy of Berg 1811
10/02 Danzig Passport History
10/04 When Siam became Thailand
10/08 State of Vietnam – Passport 1957
10/09 Important German Film Director Passport
10/11 ROC Diplomatic Passport 1944
10/13 German Alien Passport 1942 Bohemia and Moravia
10/16 Woman Fled Nazi Germany To Become US Citizen
10/19 German Architect builds America’s first Skyscrapers
10/22 45 Passports of Adelbert von Chamisso and his family 1792-1837
10/24 Passport Market Flash – Where is the collectors market going?
10/27 The passport of young Winston Churchill
10/29 His Royal Highness Prince Zeid al Hussein – Diplomatic Passport
10/30 GDR Passport to Cuba – Youth Festival 1978, Havana
11/05 The Passport of John Ruskin 1872
11/08 Documents of an East German Diplomat
11/11 US Passport 1810 – Legation France – John Armstrong
11/12 I got scammed
11/13 Let Pass Or Die – DIGITAL EDITION (eBook) – Passport History
11/14 Two beautiful Thai passports from 1954
11/15 Passport of Hitler’s personal aide – Max Wuensche
11/18 Nazi Passport 1938 to USA-Guatemala-Italy
11/20 Let Pass Or Die – Passport History (eBook Edition)
11/21 Curious German Passport 1939 issued in London
11/24 Luxembourg Passport 1950 – Allied Military Government
11/28 Turkish NATO Travel Document Includes Cosmic Security Clearance
12/01 Envoy Charles Francis Adams – US Passport 1861 in London
12/03 East German Alien Passport Type
12/10 US Diplomatic Passport Robert S. Townsend
12/14 Fantastic Swiss Maid Passport In WWII Germany – Outstanding!
12/18 Commemorative Passports
12/18 Polish Aliyah Passports Index
12/18 German Actor Schoenhals Who Faced The Nazis
12/18 Important Sugihara Passport Discovered
12/18 East Germany 1955 – Very early passport
12/18 Ephemera Society Fair London
12/18 Moonwalker Charlie Duke
12/19 Diplomatic Passport Erich Mielke
12/19 Awesome King Charles of France Passport 1562
12/19 Passport – International Permanent Armistice Commission
12/19 Jewish Emigration From Nazi Germany
12/19 Kings Messenger may be dangerous
12/22 Jazz Singer Billy Holiday
12/22 Joe Fraziers Passport 1984
12/25 Wallenberg Schutzpass Found In Budapest
12/25 No More Queens Messenger Passports
12/25 Extremely Rare North Korea Passport 1950s
12/25 King Louis XVI Passport 1782
12/28 David Ben-Gurion Diplomatic Passport
12/28 Siam Passport Document – Bunnag Family
12/28 Ionian Islands Passport 1856
12/31 Football Legend PELE Died
12/31 Former Pope Benedict XVI Died

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01/03 Unusual Nazi Passport 1946
01/03 The British passport Of Peter Walker
01/06 Vatican Laissez-Passer 1944 Noble Guard
01/06 UK Passport 1933 of a Secret Service Agent
01/06 Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendome, Passport 1704
01/06 Sir William Hamilton Passport 1818
01/06 Marvin Gaye’s Passport 1964
01/06 Massachusetts Passport 1814
01/06 Beautiful Haiti Passport 1955
01/06 Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath – German Consulate Lugano
01/09 Passport Vice-Consul Pankhurst Lausanne
01/09 Joseph J. Franklin US Diplomatic Passport
01/25 Lilian Gish – Silent Movie Star Passport
01/25 NDH – Passport Types
01/26 James Earl Ray – Assassin of MLK Jr.
01/26 A rare Kingdom of Tonga passport
01/27 Guideline: US Passport History 1756-2016
01/28 Nazi Document For A Egyptian Princess
01/30 A Short History Guide Of Passports
02/01 Collecting Beautiful Old Passports
02/01 Passport Collection Service
02/01 The Evolution of the Passport: A Journey Through Time
02/02 Enable Push Notifications
02/02 The St. Louis and the faith of its passengers
02/02 Travel, Passports and Borders
02/02 German Passport issued by SS in Oslo
02/06 Travel in Style: Global Passport Designs Celebrated by Tom Topol
02/08 BREAKING: eBay has purged vintage passport sellers/collectors
02/08 Vintage Passports In Leather Cases
02/08 One Of The Earliest Federal Germany Passports
02/08 Passport Physical Characteristics: History
02/10 Travel will change to biometric, digital and blockchain passports
02/11 Unusual Carl Lutz Schutzbrief with two pictures
02/13 Sugihara + Zwartendijk Visas On Life-Saving Travel Document
02/14 Debra Jo Fondren – Playboy Playmate Passport
02/15 Why Collect Vintage Passports?
02/15 Gerda Kolb: The Brave Journey of a Woman in 1937
02/15 Ebay Controversies
02/15 Navy CDR James Rowney – Pearl Harbor
02/16 Putin’s Stasi ID found in German Archives
02/18 Border Control in the 20th Century
02/20 eBay Layoffs 2023
02/22 Canada passport 1940 for USA only
02/22 How the Swiss passport became Red
02/23 Diplomatic Passport of Sadat sold at $47k
02/23 Unusual Kingdom of Saxony Passport
02/23 Altered Sugihara Document Saves Jewish Lifes
02/23 Abraham Lincoln Passport sold at $17k
02/25 Diplomatic Passport Mecklenburg 1907
02/26 Thai Passport Rear Admiral Kulkamthorn
02/28 Free City Of Bremen Passport 1907
03/01 Galeazzo Ciano – Diplomatic Passports
03/01 Nicholas Winton – Saving Jewish Kids in WWII
03/01 Netherlands’ oldest printed passport?
03/05 American Maritime Documents 1776-1860
03/05 US Seaman Certificate 1840 issued by George Bancroft
03/06 German Colonial Passport Of Kiautschou
03/06 Otto Skorzeny and wife passports
03/06 ICAO 24 Nov 2015 Deadline
03/06 Security features 19th-century passport
03/06 NS-German Passport issued in Luxembourg
03/09 German ID-Card (Passkarte) History
03/23 A Thai Temple Visit With A Surprise
03/24 Russian Empress Elisabeth’s passport
03/25 A well-traveled German Passport
03/27 Rose Valland – NS Plundering – Assignment Order
03/30 Pierre Cartier passport issued in New York
04/02 Moshe Yuval brings home Jews from Shanghai
04/03 East German passports valid until 1995
04/04 Diplomatic ID’s USN Lieutenant 1934/41
04/04 Sadat: A curious passport case جواز سفر الرئيس السادات
04/05 Passport to Reform: Helena Florence Normanton
04/07 “Passports are not necessary”
04/09 Passport log sheds light on consular history
04/13 Diana, Princess of Wales – Passports
04/14 Diplomatic Passport Dr. Gerhard Wolf 1945
04/17 The curious Sugihara case of Fred Lepkin
04/19 Blowback for vintage passport collectors
04/21 Irish Passport with several AMG revenue stamps
04/22 The Art of Vintage Passport Collecting
04/23 The Fascinating World of Vintage Passport Collecting
04/24 Who was Nobel Price Laureate Georg von Bekesy?
04/25 German Jewish Escape and Internment in the UK
04/26 Global Passport Fees 2023
04/27 ID-Card Princess Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
04/28 Passport Colors: Why They Matter & What They Mean
04/29 Lakehurst Airship Disaster – Passport & Passenger Ticket
05/01 The History of the Red J-Stamp
05/04 Passport fraud and forgery in history
05/08 Marie Colvin – War Reporter Passport
05/12 Passport 1792 Lord Fitzgerald Robert S.
05/15 Aeronautics Pioneer T. Windel Passport 1915
05/29 A German mother of three kids travels to China in 1909
05/30 Polish Escape to Canada and USA in 1944
05/31 Getting Together with Agnes Hirschi
06/01 A most interesting email from a reader
06/03 Austrian-Hungary passports of a notable diplomat

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