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 Emperor for six month – Czar Peter III Passport 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. Peter III was emperor…
In Soviet Russia everyone had to have a passport. And everybody had to state his race in the passport. If you were Russian (slavic) you had to write “Russian”, but if you were Jewish or Polish you had to write…
Passport 1797 Francis II – Last Emperor Of The Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation existed for more than 1000 years, from 800/962 to 1806. Emperor Francis II was not only the last Emperor of…
Handwritten Passport – US-Consul Robert Monroe Harrison, Jamaica 1835 Here comes an early passport of the United States of America, issued at the Consulate in Kingston, Jamaica in 1835. The passport is completely handwritten. US Consul in Jamaica was Robert…