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Post Offices ATOOM to AWIESRUST

ATOOM
20.10.1950 to Republic
Renamed from Kareefontein
Area: Nylstroom (Transvaal)
NOT RECORDED (Postmarks after 1961)
ATTERIDGEVILLE
12.08.1940 to 16.07.1951
30.06.1952 to
Republic
Area: Pretoria

30.07.1954 21.01.1955
1   2C "Blank"   (Aab) (Putzel)
 

ATTIE
27.00.1926 to Republic
Area: Kroonstad (OFS)
18.02.1941
1   2C "Bar + cross"     (Putzel)
   

AUCKLAND PARK
January 1912 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
03.10.1917
1 "T.S.O" 2C "JOHANNESBURG"     (Putzel)
   

09.05.1922 11.06.1935
2 "B.O." 2C "JOHANNESBURG"   (Aab) (Putzel)
 

       

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11.06.1936
3   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   (Putzel)
   

AUGRABIES (AUGHRABIES)
14.11.1938 to
Republic
Area: Kakamas (Cape)
Renamed from Orange Falls

Spelt 30.01.1956 07.2.1956

1   2C "Blank"
Aughrabies (Putzel) (Aab)
 

AURORA
Union to Republic
Area: Piketberg (Cape)

Medium 03.06.1912 24.04.1926

1   2C "Bars + cross"
bars (Aab) (Putzel)
 

       

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13.09.1943 03.08.1959
2   2C "Bars + cross" Thick bars
(Putzel) (Aab)
 

02.12.1955
3   1C "Blank" Skeleton
(Visser)
Republic  

Visser

Last seen: 13.01.1956

4   2C "Cross"
17.08.1978 (Aab)
Republic  

AUSTERVILLE
24.07.1950 to Republic
Area: Durban

07.09.1953
1   2C "Blank"      
  (Putzel)

AUSTIN'S POST
Union to Republic
Area: Edenburg (OFS)
17.04.1951
1 "S.O." 2C "Blank"     (Putzel)
   

AVOCA
Union  to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "NATAL"   Union 07.08.1912  
(Putzel)

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10.07.1930
2   2C "Blank"   Rail
(Putzel)
   
09.04.1953 17.10.1960
3   2C "Cross"     (Putzel) (Putzel)
 

AVONDALE
Union  to 29.09.1930
Area: Durban

09.07.1922
1   2C "Blank"      
  (Putzel)

AVONDROOD
01.06.1914 to 02.09.1935
Area: Oudtshoorn (Cape)
NOT RECORDED
AVONDRUST
 11.07.1932 to Republic
Area: Albertinia (Cape)

15.08.1932
1   2C "Blank"      
  (Putzel)

AVONDSTER
10.04.1939 to 01.11.1943
Area: Schweizer Reneke (Transvaal)
Renamed to Aandster
NOT RECORDED
AVONDZON
 04.09.1939 to Republic
Area: Pretoria

Date error
14.08.1945 05.12.1955
1   2C "Blank" should be
(Visser) (Putzel)
 
1945

Visser

AVONTUUR (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Pretoria

First seen: 18.04.1911

1   1C "Blank"
31.07.1882
Union
(Aab)
 

2   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH 25.04.1937 22.10.1948  

above date (Aab) (Putzel)
AFRICA
beleow
date

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01.11.1949
3   1C "Blank" Skeleton
(Visser)
   

Visser

09.02.1956 20.09.1960
4   2C "Blank"   (Aab) (Aab)
 

 
AWIESRUST
06.07.1925 to 10.08.1936
Area: Vereeniging (Transvaal)
NOT RECORDED
 

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