A British Passport issued to a 63-year-old Mr Richard Stovold in 1970 and valid until 1980 by the Passport Office, London.

Corner of cover clipped to denote that the passport has been rendered invalid and rubber-stamped CANCELLED.

There are plenty of frontier stampings noticeably from Singapore (1971, 1973), Malaysia (1971, 1973), Sarawak, Belgium, Japan, Thailand (1971, 1973), Hong Kong, Netherlands and Brazil.

A 32-page passport with a dark blue cover, commonly known as the old blue style. In 1968 the British passport validity was extended from five years renewable up to ten years and non-renewable. This is one of the early 10-year passports where the applicant filled in their own description on the form which was then cut out and pasted into the passport as page 2.

VISAS

It has two rubberstamped visas, one for the United States of America (1971) and another for Thailand (1971).

PRINTER'S CODE

Page 32 and interior side of back cover: S.322911