Passports and other official government issued identity documents are an interesting topic to divulge into. A must have document in this interconnected world where travelling is part of our modern integrated world with even stricter policing at the frontier or to drive around in a personal vehicle. Opening a bank account is no less bureaucratic which requires a person to establish his identity with some reputable and valid documents.

Sovereign has its own authority to issue different type of identity documents ranging from identity cards, driving licenses or birth certificates under its jurisdiction, therefore documents can vary from one country to another. Going to a foreign country, visas and resident cards are issued to regulate those of non-citizen.

These documents are product of both politics and technology. First as a plea to protect and respect its bearer, later as mechanisms of security, and then tokens in global integration. It is part of symbols of nationhood: flags, stamps, banknotes & passports.

Travelling is essentially a part of human necessities and with transportations, connections and entertainment, crossing the border is just part of the fun. Those with family residing at different part of the world, travelling is the only way for physical connection. With cheap fares, tourism is no longer for reserve fews.

Collecting passport and identity documents is grouped under ephemera : collecting paper and manuscript. Some are probably interested into specific countries or regions, period of issue, immigration stamps or multiple type of visas or perhaps philatelic revenue stamps. Or some are just collecting these documents in general. Whatever the reason is, each document is unique depending on the issuing country, issued visas and frontier seals; making collecting these documents a journey to fulfil for each piece's unique historic, pageantry and its aesthetic value.
Malaysia   ✇   Federation of Malaya (1957 - 1963) Post Independence   ✇   Japanese Occupation of Malaya (1942 - 1945)   ✇   Federation of Malaya (1948 - 1957) British Protected   ✇   Straits Settlements   ✇   State of Singapore (1959 - 1963) Full Internal Self-Government   ✇   Crown Colony of Singapore (1946 - 1955)   ✇   Unfederated Malay States   ✇   State of Singapore (1955 - 1959) Partial Internal Self-Government

United Kingdom   ✇   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland   ✇   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland   ✇   Bailiwick of Guernsey   ✇   British Dependent Territory of Hong Kong

Estonia   ✇   Republic of Yugoslavia   ✇   Portugal   ✇   Federal Republic of Yugoslavia   ✇   Sweden   ✇   Republic of Peru   ✇   Finland   ✇   Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of   ✇   State of Israel   ✇   Bulgaria   ✇   United States of America   ✇   Republic of China   ✇   Kingdom of Spain   ✇   Republic of Serbia   ✇   Pakistan   ✇   Palestinian Authority   ✇   Lithuania   ✇   New Zealand   ✇   Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus   ✇   Saudi Arabia   ✇   British India   ✇   Spain   ✇   Republic of Croatia   ✇   Republic of Slovenia   ✇   Union of Soviet Socialist Republics   ✇   British Mandate Palestine   ✇   Kingdom of Belgium   ✇   France   ✇   Republic of Moldova   ✇   Kosovo   ✇   Poland   ✇   The Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Burma)   ✇   Philippines   ✇   Republic of France   ✇   Greece   ✇   Italy   ✇   Russian Federation   ✇   Republic of Turkey   ✇   Republic of Singapore   ✇   Thailand   ✇   Hungary   ✇   Republic of Ireland
 
Colony of Singapore : Visa — Issued in Canton, China (1951)

Crown Colony of Singapore (1946 - 1955)

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United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland : British Passport — Biometric (2006 — 2016)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Denmark : Passport Pre-EC (Green) SPECIMEN for Adults

Kingdom of Denmark

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Germany : Child's Passport (2014 — 2020)

Germany

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Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina : Passport — Series V (2008 — 2013) with Visa for Russia, Libya, Ukraine & Algeria

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Portugal : Biometric Passport (2017 — 2022)

Portugal

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