A very special Free City of Danzig Passport – Take a look and learn why This city on the Baltic coast (presently the Polish city of Gdansk), was detached from Germany in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles and became a Free…
Sigmund Freud’s British BOGUS Passport From 1930’s It could have been a great global news story to find the passport of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. But the story took another direction. Via my website I always get plenty of…
Passport of a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Usually I do not collect documents by purpose because its bearer is/was famous or important but when I have the chance to grab such passport historical documents without big efforts, then of…
The Passport Of A Tireless War Correspondent A Stamped History of Marie Colvin’s Career. A Outstanding story about her work and life as war correspondent and her passport is just reflecting this! By Mickey Stanley, VanityFair, July 6, 2012 Through the…
A German passport issued by the SS in occupied Netherlands The Occupation of the Netherlands German forces crossed the eastern frontier of the Netherlands in several places early on May 10, 1940, while additional troops landed on the beaches north…
The Passport of East German Minister for Ore Mining I still collect East German (GDR) passports whenever I find them interesting and affordable but that you find passports of former government members is truly rare. Here comes one of them. Kurt…
The Passport Of A Young African-American Issued in Germany Over the past 30 years, the share of U.S. citizens holding a passport has increased dramatically. Last year, a grand total of 21.4 million passports were issued in the U.S., the highest…
The passport of a Geologist and Lieutenant in WWI William Josiah Wright had studied in Yale University (B.S. Acadia College 1907, B.A. Yale University 1908, M.A. 1912). Dissertation: Geology of the New Ross Map-Area, with an introductory chapter on the…
Several Royal Passports of Prince Alfons of Bavaria Not often a collector has the chance to get several passports of a price, in this case Prince Alfons of Bavaria. However, I unfortunately missed the lot as the price went much…
A East German Passport – Wolf Biermann – Singer-Songwriter-Dissident Karl Wolf Biermann (born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident. He is perhaps best known for the 1968 song “Ermutigung” and his expatriation from East Germany in 1976.…