Swiss Journeyman book of Canton Schwyz 1874
This beautiful Journeyman book and passport from the small Swiss canton of Schwyz came in, and I love it. It is in great condition for…
This beautiful Journeyman book and passport from the small Swiss canton of Schwyz came in, and I love it. It is in great condition for…
Here is an outstanding GDR/DDR passport from 1960 with a visa to North Korea and a visa from the GDR Embassy in North Korea back…
The rare ID belongs to a British participant in the Potsdam Conference, which took place from July 17 to August 2, 1945, in the Cecilienhof…
A recent TV documentation about this extraordinary woman inspired me to write this article. Mata Hari, real name Margaretha Geertuida Zelle, was born in 1876…
Passport King Umberto II Umberto II (born Sept. 15, 1904, Racconigi, Italy—died March 18, 1983, Geneva, Switz.), prince of Savoy, was briefly king of Italy in…
German Jew J stamp From 5 October 1938, German Jews needed a “unique identifier” in the form of a 3 cm large red J in…
passport King George III George III was born on 4 June 1738 in London, the eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta…
When it comes to passport history, Germany and GDR are strong focuses. I have one of the first Federal German passports in my collection. Same…
The city of Petrograd was the capital of the Russian Empire from the 18th to the 20th century. Only from 1914 to 1924 was it…
By Géraldine Cerf de Dudzeele, Paris – repost from 2013 Passport Princess Natalija Montenegro Natalija Konstantinović Passport Princess Natalija Montenegro was born in Trieste (Italy)…
This is an English passport issued to Sir Thomas Aston on 9th December 1640 to enable him to travel with two servants as he was…
Between 350,000 and 500,000 Soviet soldiers were stationed in the GDR – more than anywhere else outside the borders of the USSR. The duration of…
An unusual passport for a Czechoslovak military courier for travel from Prague to Kyiv in March 1919 unusual Czechoslovak passport courier Many thanks to Zbyšek…
FREE FRANCE and its Free French Forces (French: France Libre et les Forces françaises libres) was the government-in-exile led by Charles de Gaulle during the Second World War, and its military forces, that…
German Reunification Unbelievable, it is already 30 years ago when Germany East and West reunited. When the wall came down in Nov 1989, I wanted…
Leopold Morse was a United States Representative from Massachusetts, and this is his 1886 US passport. Morse was born in 1831 in Wachenheim, Germany, and…