Portuguese Consul Passport – Embassy in Warsaw
Portuguese Consul Passport Usually, I would not collect such a document, as it is “too young” for my collection focus. But then I took a…
British WWI Soldier Returns from Spanish Battlefield
Meet George Henry Herbert Morton, who has no medal card in the Nation Archives records, suggesting that he went overseas too late to qualify for…
Mary Kingsley Was A Fearless Victorian Lady Explorer
Mary Kingsley Fearless Explorer Imagine it’s 1893 and a young woman, just at age 30, from London wants to travel to the West coast of…
Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776–1785
Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776–1785 Benjamin Franklin, the most distinguished scientific and literary American of his age, was the first American diplomat. He served…
Nazi Germany Passport issued in Luxembourg
This passport was issued on 17 October 1939 to Michael Flügel, his wife and two children just a few weeks after WWII begun but well…
The passport of a STASI unofficial collaborator – Code name PRIMUS
The passport of a STASI unofficial collaborator – Code name PRIMUS This is the passport was issued to Ulrich Makosch (born March 17, 1933, in…
Did you ever hear of an IGAD Passport?
Did you ever hear of an IGAD Passport? The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is an eight-country trade bloc in Africa. It includes governments from the Horn of Africa, Nile Valley and the African…
Free Hanseatic Republics Passport – London 1840
Free Hanseatic Republics Passport Issued At London 1840 This travel document is one of the rare passport types a collector can find. In fact, this…