A
Passport which indicates that the
holder is of
British nationality.
Today, a
little burgundy booklet bearing the following
inscriptions in
gold print on the
cover: (caps for accuracy)
"
EUROPEAN UNION
UNITED KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN
AND NORTHERN IRELAND
A large Royal Coat-of-Arms
PASSPORT"
The
inside cover and the rest of the
pages have an
intricately printed pattern of
intertwining lines and text: "
BRITISH PASSPORT" of
many colours which
average out to a
pale pink.
The inside cover has a
small coat-of-arms at its head and says the following in almost
illegible italic copperplate type:
"
Her Britannic Majesty's
Secretary of State
Requests and requires
in the Name of Her Majesty
all those whom it may concern
to allow the bearer to pass freely
without let or hindrance,
and to afford the bearer
such assistance and protection
as may be necessary
"
Inside, there are 26
pages for the
stamping of
visas and some additional notes on the meaning of the
data fields printed on the
inside back page, in various
European languages.
The
inside back page itself is
laminated and bears
fixed width OCR readable style text for:
Oh, and there's the
cheesy Passport Photo in the top-left corner.
The bottom two lines carry what is presumably an
alphanumerical encoding of the rest of the
data in an
OCR readable font.
I think my
Passport is cool.