Tom Topol • Author • Passport History Expert • Old Passports

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Collectors Meeting In Bangkok II

22 March, 201316 July, 2020

It’s always great to meet up with fellow collectors, and this time I had the chance to meet Scott in Bangkok. Knowing each other for about two years by email, […]

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Kuwaiti travel documents

25 December, 201210 June, 20132 Comments

KUWAIT: Traveling in the 1930s was not as a familiar process as it is nowadays since Kuwaiti people, back in the days, had no passports to travel with. They traveled […]

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Effective annexation: Israel now stamping passports of West Bank visitors “Judea and Samaria only” (update)

24 December, 201222 January, 2013

UPDATE SEE HERE: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2012/12/201514.htm#ISRAEL (Ismael Mohamad / United Press International) Effective annexation: Israel now stamping passports of West Bank visitors “Judea and Samaria only” New Israeli stamp says “Judea […]

us eagle

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Book Review – The United States Passport (Past, Present, Future)

6 November, 20123 March, 20194 Comments

The United States Passport (Past, Present, Future) is full of facts about the American passport. The book was issued by the Passport Office – Department of State in 1976. Even […]

Collective Passport For Young People In The United Kingdom

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Collective Passport For Young People In The United Kingdom

28 October, 201217 January, 20194 Comments

Collective Passport For Young People In The United Kingdom Did you know that collective passports are still issued in UK and Malta? This document is a collective passport for children […]

Marshall Islands

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Collectors Meeting in Singapore (4)

22 October, 201222 November, 2014

Again I could meet my fellow collector in Singapore where we spend time together discussing about travel documents at the German restaurant “Brotzeit” where we start our meeting. This time […]

A Great Passport Collectors Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam

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A Great Passport Collectors Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam

17 October, 201217 January, 2019

A Great Passport Collectors Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam After knowing Viet for some time by email I just had the chance to meet him this time at his home in […]

Persia1911

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Rare Persian Passport 1911

1 October, 201218 April, 20184 Comments

Not often you find such a nice & rare collectible from the Arabic-Islamic World. This Persian passport was issued when Persia was still a kingdom and ruled by the last […]

BBC Show Finds Passport Signed By Charles I. in 1641

28 September, 201217 January, 20192 Comments

BBC Show Finds Passport Signed By Charles I. in 1641 London, May 11 (ANI): A BBC Show has come across a passport dating back to 1641 in Sunderland, the UK, […]

DDR Wappen-1955-1990

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East German Passport 1955 – One of the very first travel documents

19 September, 20128 September, 2020

This travel document might be one of the earliest issued East German Passport. I never saw one before 1955. The first passport act of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was […]