After Fridtjof Nansen had passed away, the Nansen International Office for Refugees in the League of Nations was established in September 1930. From then on it handled the issue of the Nansen passports, and the stamps were changed. Among other things, the reference to the resolution of May 12th 1926 was removed, and the League of Nations High Commission for Refugees is replaced with Nansen International Office for Refugees under the Authority of the League of Nations – also in French.
The Nansen Office was in 1939 awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The League of Nations had by then in reality outplayed its role. The stamps found in the Nansen passports for 1938 no longer claim the League of Nations’ authority. Now they only say Office International Nansen. The same year the office was closed. Its activity was continued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, a new agency with headquarters in London.
Several famous people benefited from the Nansen passport, such as the composers Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rakhmaninov, the painter Marc Chagall and the dancer Anna Pavlova. The well-known paleontologist Anatol Heintz is a Nansen passport holder of particular interest to Norwegians. His passport is dated April 2nd 1925, the Central Passport Office.
Stamps from 1938 and 1939 in residence permits issued by Gudbrandsdal Politimesterembete, 3dje sivilktr.G, Statsborgerskapssak 475/1940 G Vladimir Sokoloff
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