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Here are some Greek postage stamps in our first album from Greece, including many stamps from Eiprus and Crete. These are stamps from the 1896 set commemorating the first Olympics in the Modern era. Our family has a special connection with this Olympics as Calliope Kalvourides father was Ioannis Mamaes, who was in charge of the restoration and re marbling the ancient Panathenian Stadium whose history dates back to 300bc. There was a benefactor who funded the project in 1895 and an architect who designed the stadium, who then turned to our Great Grandfather to do the work.

Our First Album of Stamps.

We received our first album of our YaYa's stamps on April 29, 2009. This collection was compiled by several members of the family in Greece but we have chosen to make it the name sake of Calliope Kalvourides, as she was the last active collector in the family to maintain and expand the collection. Calliope Kalvourides slept in the Lord in the year 2004.