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YAOTSU TOWN HALL OFFICE (YAOTSU, JAPAN) Support of the UNESCO Memory of the World Project for the Chiune Sugihara Memorial Museum INFOSECURA – SECURITYPRINTERS.ORG (Bruxelles, Belgium) Article on...
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Passport 1902 – US Embassy, London
Joseph H. Choate (1832-1917), a diplomat and lawyer Here comes another fantastic United States passport issued at the US Embassy in London in 1902. The document has the original signature of Ambassador...
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Walter Schulze-Bernett – German Military Intelligence
Update March 2016: Talking to Irena Steinfeldt, Director, Righteous Among the Nations Department at Yad Vashem no decision is made due to the lack of some archive documents which are not delivered...
View ArticleThe new European Union laissez-passer
A giant leap forward by Nathalie Creste and Claudia Schwendimann, © Keesing Reference Systems B.V., Keesing Journal of Documents & Identity February 2016 In 2015, based on an amended legal basis,...
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LATEST LIST OF COLLECTIBLES
Note: All documents are obsolete and for collection/research purpose only! Details on request! ANDORRA 1978 – SUPER RARE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE – 700 YEARS ANDORRA !!! Andorran passports itself are most...
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Her Majesty’s Queen’s Messengers – History & Current Status
The Corps of Queen’s Messengers are couriers employed by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). They hand-carry secret and important documents to British embassies and consulates around the...
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The Passport Photo And It’s History
2015 was actually the 100th anniversary of the passport photo but it was unfortunately not much communicated or even celebrated. Only the British newspaper “The Sunday Post” published a brief article...
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Passenger’s Passport – SS St Louis: The Ship Of Jewish Refugees Nobody Wanted
THIS IS MOST SIGNIFICANT HISTORY! On 13 May 1939, more than 900 Jews fled Germany aboard a luxury cruise liner, the SS St Louis. They hoped to reach Cuba and then travel to the US – but were turned...
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Guideline On Examining UK Identity Documents
A guide on how to detect basic forgeries in identity documents I am always impressed which documents you can find at the British government sites. I have seem many such pages when doing some research...
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British Consul Arthur Woodhouse C.B.E.
This is an awesome document lot of ARTHUR WOODHOUSE, ESQ, C.B.E. who held several posts as British Consul. It’s quite unusual to find such documents all related to one Consul and this makes this...
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German Field Marshal – Erhard Milch
Erhard Milch was one of Hitler’s senior Luftwaffe officers during World War Two. Milch played a key role in building up the Luftwaffe pre-1939 and he took credit for the part played by it during the...
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Several Passports Of Football Icon “PELE” Sold At Auction
The “PELE Collection” is unprecedented and extraordinary. It covers every stage of his career — both personal and professional. The collection offers a story of sorts from his signing with Santos FC in...
View ArticleThe British Embassy In Bangkok (Video)
True Brits was a documentary series screened in the early nineties with the episode I’ve shared below, The Consul’s Story, looking at the work of the British Embassy in Bangkok. It’s worth a look as...
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CANADIAN MUSEUM OF HUMAN RIGHTS (WINNIPEG, CANADA) The museum got three significant collectibles from me. A NANSEN passport and two German passports of Jews with the infamous J-stamp (Jew) RUSHEN...
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Sugihara UNESCO Memory of the World Program
Sugihara’s home city and museum in Yaotsu, Japan is applying to cover Sugihara Chinue’s documents, which saved so many lifes during the Holocaust, within the UNESCO Memory of the World Program....
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Passport Carl Szokoll – Stauffenberg – Valkyrie – 20 July Plot 1944
Von Stauffenberg’s linkman in Vienna during the plot to assassinate Hitler Szokoll was an officer in an Austrian infantry regiment, absorbed like the rest of the national army into the Wehrmacht after...
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Lutz & Wallenberg Life Saving Documents – A Unique Testimony
Lutz & Wallenberg Life Saving Documents For The Same Person Carl Lutz and Raoul Wallenberg are iconic names when it comes to righteous diplomats saving Jewish lifes in Budapest, Hungary during the...
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Testimonials (voices) from collectors & readers “Your website is so impressive that I feel that if anyone would know the approximate value of these (passports), it would be you.” “…thanks for a...
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US Passport 1947 Issued In Berlin For Colonel Edward Dehne – What A Man!
He was on the D-Day beaches at Normandy and fought across Europe to Berlin, personally participating in the rescue of numerous concentration camps… with amazing details of what he saw and had to do as...
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Astronaut – Donald “Deke” Slayton
Described by Life Magazine as “frank and stubborn,” Slayton once joked that people were always trying to stop him from exploring. Indeed, the Air Force almost rejected him when they discovered that his...
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