Some of my favorite covers in our collection.

I'm listing and writing about these covers in no particular order. These covers are from my previous collection when I started collecting in the 90"s and also from my wife's grandparents collection. Some are covers aquired after the two collections merged.
This first cover is from Calliope's collection and is a cover canceled at the 1936 Olympics. This was the Oylimpics in Berlin and opened officially by Chancellor Adolf Hitler.

Detail of Page One

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.