A special handstamp will be issued tomorrow, Friday, the 24th of December, to commemorate the 130 th Anniversary from the birth of Laurent Ropa .
MaltaPost said that the handstamp will be available at the Xaghra Post Office situated at 132, Triq it-Tigrija Xaghra.
Laurent Ropa was born in Xaghra 130 years ago on Christmas Day, and aged 2 moved with his family to Algiers. Ropa is remembered as a Maltese/French novelist, columnist and poet.
Orders for this special hand postmark may be placed from the Philatelic Bureau, MaltaPost p.l.c. 305, Triq Hal Qormi, Marsa, MTP 1001, online at www.maltaphilately.com [1] or by mail – Telephone 2596 1740 – e- mail: info@maltaphilately.com [2].