More Favorite Covers.

Here is an interesting postcard mailed from Cyprus showing the S.S. Arabic, one of the ships of the Red Star Line. Avra and I both loved the artist's rendition of her plus Cyprus matches well our collecting of everything Greek. I posted one picture of the back if you want to attempt to read the note.

More favorite covers from the collection.

This cover is from Calliope's collection. It is a first day cover of of the 1938 Royal Wedding stamps. It is franked with the middle value , (3 drachma) , of the set of three stamps commemorating the wedding of Prince Paul to Princess Frederika Louise of Hannover. I think this cover is "extra" special by being created on stationary from the King George Hotel in Athens.

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.

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.