Passport History • Tom Topol • Expert & Author • Old Passports

Louis XIII King of France Passport 1636 - Peace Congress Cologne

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Unique Croatian collective passport from February 1941

28 April, 201928 April, 2019

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This passport is possibly the very last one issued by the GDR (DDR)

26 April, 201927 April, 2019

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East German couple traveling 1974 from Schoenefeld airport to Cuba

22 April, 201924 April, 20194 Comments

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How the Passport Became an Improbable Symbol of American Identity

16 April, 201913 April, 2019

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Wolfgang von Goethe’s Passport from 1808 to travel to Carlsbad

12 April, 201924 April, 2019

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Adult British Passport of a decorated Boy Soldier in First World War

8 April, 2019

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A German Democratic Republic Passport 1980 With a Twist

26 March, 201924 April, 2019

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Portugal Service Vice Consul Warsaw 1975 GDR

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Passport of the Vice Consul at the Portuguese Embassy in Warsaw

22 March, 201924 April, 2019

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US Seaman Certificate 1840 issued by George Bancroft

19 March, 201927 June, 2019

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Tom, I received my first copy of LET PASS OR DIE today. I’m pleased you invested in good printing, as the images are excellent. I’m looking forward to reading it and passing on purchase details to ex-colleagues from the UK Immigration National Document Fraud Unit. (S.A., UK)

I’ve got the book yesterday, it has many knowledge’s about passports and history. Very useful for me. (Jenwit, TH)

When I started to read the book, I understood how less I know about passports when an expert talks about them with passion. At the first glace, passports, which we see every day become even more interesting. (Pavel, BR)

I am reading the first chapters of the book and I love the theme and how it is addressed. Without a doubt it is a very interesting book. (Marcos, AG)

I am not a passport collector but I saw someone reading your book in the train during my business trip and it caught my attention. So I bought it.
(Przemek, PL)

Your book arrived and what a thing of beauty it is.
(Dave, USA)

Your book is fantastic! (Ross, USA)

Sehr interessante Geschichten. Das Buch ist sehr vielfältig und hoch interessant! (Norbert, GER)

The book is fantastic! Really enjoying it. It will definitely be in our reading list for the online collection. (Karin, USA)

Your book is awesome, I can learn a lot about passport collecting! (Robert, USA)

I have begun my delighted perusing of your book. The stories of Lou Gehrig, the Confederate Brigadier General, Thomas, the bogus passport of Freud plus the Titanic survivor, Edith Brown Haussmann – all fascinating! (Susan, USA)

The story of how Israel issued me a passport with a Colander on my head has been published in a book about the history of passports, titled “Let Pass or Die”, by Tom Topol, a passport history expert. May the Flying Spaghetti Monster bless his sauces.

Michael Afanasyev (@DocSpaghetti)