A Readers Story – Charles Castle (1813-1886) And His Passports

A Readers Story – Charles Castle (1813-1886) And His Passports

A Readers Story – Charles Castle (1813-1886) And His Passports I have the contents of the writing desk of my great great great uncle Charles Castle, passed down to me by my uncle John Salter. It’s a treasure trove of…

British King’s Courier Passport Of Ernest Frederick Gye

British King’s Courier Passport Of Ernest Frederick Gye

British King’s Courier Passport Of Ernest Frederick Gye This British King’s courier passport was issued on 7th December 1910 for travel to St. Petersburg, Russia, maybe in connection with the arrival of Sir George Buchanan the new British Ambassador. The…

Colony Of North Borneo

Colony Of North Borneo

North Borneo was a British protectorate under the sovereign  North Borneo Chartered Company from 1882 to 1946. After World War II, it became a  crown colony of the  United Kingdom from 1946 to 1963, known as British North Borneo. Currently, it is…

German Jew – Forced to Leave Switzerland

German Jew – Forced to Leave Switzerland

Jew Forced To Leave Switzerland This German passport was issued in 1934 at the Consulate General in Zurich / Switzerland to Leo Neumann (I do have also another one in his name and one for his wife). As you can…

International Air Travel in the 1930s

International Air Travel in the 1930s

When we talk about passports we talk about traveling – in this case international air travel in the 1930s. Today we largely take international air travel for granted. Every major city in the world is little more than a hop,…

Garry Davis – First Citizen Of The World

Garry Davis – First Citizen Of The World

His radical proposal — hailed by supporters like the way of the future — was a world with no national borders, one in which all people belonged to the same global citizenry. The world would be a place of peace…

Captain Henry Rodolph Davies And His Chinese Passport

Captain Henry Rodolph Davies And His Chinese Passport

Captain Henry Rodolph Davies And His Chinese Passport Look at this huge Chinese passport issued to a soldier from the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry more than 100 years ago. Captain Henry Rodolph Davies was aged 29 when, in 1894,…

Denmark Sea Passport 1823

Denmark Sea Passport 1823

This document is a “Translation Of The Sea-Passport”, a partly printed document with handwritten additions issued at the island of St. Thomas for the vessel “Julius Thales”. The commercial brig was sailing  from St. Thomas via Cape Haiti to Antwerp….

25 Years Fall Of The Wall – A Unique Passport

25 Years Fall Of The Wall – A Unique Passport

Do you remember where you were when the wall was falling? Instantly I wanted to travel to Berlin from my city in South Germany to join this historical event of my generation – but I couldn’t. It took me till…