Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was born in Salonica (today in Greece) in 1881. He is renowned as the founder of the Republic of Turkey. In 1915, he emerged as a military hero in Dardanelles during the Gallipoli campaign and later became…
Debra Jo Fondren (born February 5, 1955) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for the September 1977 issue and Playmate of the Year for 1978. Robert Scott Hooper photographed her pictorial. Fondren,…
Update after further research This document was specially issued for the British Zone in Austria. That is unique/unprecedented (nothing to find in the UNHCR or other literature on the topic). refugee travel document What you see here is a…
The Passport of Zionist Leader Vladimir Jabotinsky Zeev Jabotinsky was born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky on October 18, 1880, in Odessa. In his lifetime, he was an author, poet, and soldier. He was mostly known for founding the Jewish Self Defense…
Ukrainian Soviet Republic Passport Ukrainian Soviet Republic PassportAfter the Bolsheviks conquered Kyiv, they proclaimed the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in January 1919. In March, the first constitution was adopted by the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee. On December 30, 1922, it…
You might have read my article about the facts of the North Korean passport. Well, I can now display an obsolete document of such a passport. Unfortunately, I missed the chance to get it for my own collection, but with…
As a collector, you don’t often see a Cuban diplomatic passport, but the following document was even issued to Prime Minister Felix Lancis Sanchez and his wife, Carmelina. Sanchez was a lawyer who served as a Senator, Minister of Education,…
Celebrity Passport Auction Results Update: The latest auction results were two US passports of Musician “Little Richard” from 1974 and 1976, which ended at $26.000 and $19.000 (incl. buyers premium)! Astonishing results, which I didn’t expect to see, and the…
The Nansen Office was established as an autonomous institution, with humanitarian aims, under the League of Nations’ auspices. It was to offer the refugees all the material support that its funds would permit. On the other hand, according to the…