A Russian Passport Application Album 1917 From Hawaii At the beginning of the 20th century Hawaii sugar plantation owners began to recruit laborers of European background. Former Secretary of the Territory of Hawaii and Director of the Bureau of Immigration,…
Chinese passport 1925 Russian immigration – Manschukuo A very interesting passport which is not often to find. Issued in Shanghai in 1924 for a 25 yo woman. Several interesting stamps and revenues. Colombo, Shanghai, Marseille, Saigon. Sold for $1025 at…
This large US passport was issued at the US legation in London in April 1886 to a 28 year old Philippe Victor Lacoste traveling to Russia. The several visa and revenue stamps from Russia are wonderful and so is the…
NESSELRODE KARL – Russian Count and Diplomat. Attractive D.S., Comte Nesselrode, three pages, written to the first, third and fourth, on a 14.5 x 9 folio, Saint Petersburg, 17th July 1845, to Yakov Tolstoy, in Cyrillic. The partially printed document…
Here comes a rare and wonderful family passport issued 1932 in Tilsit (East Prussia), which was then part of the German Empire. After WWII it became Russian territory and the city changed his name to Sovetsk. Tilsit, which received civic…
German Prussian Passport 1922 – Palestine Wanderer This German Prussian passport from 1922 was issued in Breslau an bears a early visa for Palestine (via Egypt) issued by the British at their embassy in Berlin plus an Austrian visa marked…
Russian Empress Elizabeth Passport 1747, signed by future Czar Peter III. Peter III was emperor of Russia for a mere six months in 1762 before he was overthrown by his wife, Catherine the Great, and assassinated in 1762. During his…
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 document is the only I ever saw. But some history of the Hanseatic Republics first.…
Literature about passport history or passport collecting is rare to find therefore you will get here valuable guidelines written by experienced collectors. You are a specialist in your passport collection field too, contact me and share your knowledge. Thanks to…
Passport Fees Around The World 2018 Here are the passport fees around the world originally based on a older British Passport Office list. The old (2010) original PDF-file can be downloaded here. Updated data are as following, coming from readers…