Seven Billion People On Earth – Twelve On The Moon And One Passport John Young was NASA’s longest-serving astronaut. He first became an astronaut when…

German New Guinea Passport This German New Guinea passport is rare, and every collector would be happy to have such a treasure in a collection….

live-saving visa Chiune Sugihara Life-saving visa by Chiune Sugihara A passport containing a transit visa issued by Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), a Japanese diplomat who saved…

aviation pioneer Hans Bongers The following passport is an important document when it comes to the history of German airline Lufthansa. Hans M. Bongers was…

Collecting For individuals who collect, the esteem of their collections is not money related but passionate. Collections permit individuals to remember their childhood and interface themselves to a period, or to a time they…

US passport embassy Paris Ambassador in Paris was then Horace Porter (Appointed: March 19, 1897. Presentation of Credentials: May 26, 1897. Termination of Mission: Presented…

last visa east Germany This is a German passport issued in Duisburg in 1983. Seven years later, the German passport will become red and an…

Not a passport but related to passports, and a manuscript of significant importance of US (passport) history. John Hancock Congress Manuscript American Revolution leader John…

VENICE. Document of Giovanni Mocenigo as Doge of Venice (1409-1485, Doge from 1478), Dogal Palace, Venice, 25 January 1480, a passport for his ‘ductor’ [waggoner],…

The following document, which seems to be a passport, was auctioned years ago for GBP 5,000. What a fantastic document of British (passport) history! James…

Benjamin Franklin passport mailbox It is still surprising which emails I get via my website after being online for 10+ years now. Readers often ask…

travel cold war germany After I had my morning coffee, I went to my computer and checked my emails when suddenly a message popped up…

Fascinating Document German Officer Meet Hans Bludau from Elbing (about 60km from Danzig), who was in 1937 just a simple artilleryman when he got this…

Who was Sergei Chekhonin? Sergei Chekhonin USSR passport Sergey Vasil’evich Tchehonine (Chekhonin) (born in Valdayka, Novgorod province [now Lykoshino, Tver’ region], 2 February 1878; died on the way from Germany to Paris, 23 February…

USSR Passport Afghanistan War The following USSR Service passport was issued in 1986 to an officer who participated in the AFGHANISTAN WAR. The stamps on…

During my research, I found this passport application of a little girl. A little smiling girl murdered by the Nazis. smiling girl murdered Nazis Who…