Postal History of
ORANGE FREE STATE
Post Offices GENEVA to HARRISMITH

GENEVA (RAIL)
11.08.1897 to 1900
Area: Kroonstad

1 PAK 1C "O.V.S."   11.08.1897
(Aab)
03.04.1900
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
2   1C "O.V.S."   02.08.1899
(OFS Ph. Soc)
   

GEORGINA
December 1896 to 1900
Area: Harrismith

1 PAK 1C "O.V.S."   27.09.1896
(Aab)
17.03.1899
(OFS Ph. Soc
 

GLEN (RAIL)
1893 to 1900
Area: Bloemfontein

1   1C "Blank."   16.10.1894
(OFS Ph. Soc)
30.110.1894
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
2   1C "Blank." Last seen
08.11.1900
(OFS Ph. Soc)
13.08.1895
(OFS Ph. Soc)
Occupation  
3   DR "O.V.S."   06.08.1894
(OFS Ph. Soc)
04.03.1894
(Aab)
 
4 PAK 1C "O.V.S."   30.01.1899
(OFS Ph. Soc)
04.09.1899
(Aab)
 

GOEDEMOED
1880 to 1881
Area: Rouxville

Not recorded

GOTHENBURG (GOTTENBURG)
1899 to 1900
Area: Heilbron

Not recorded

GROENFONTEIN
1897 to 1900
Area: Kroonstad

1 PAK 1C "O.V.S."   18.07.1898
(Kevin Price)
14.09.1899
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
       

GROOT CONSTANTIA
04.07.1883 to 1900
Area: Hoopstad

Not recorded

GROOTFONTEIN
1894 to 1900
Area: Hoopstad

Not recorded

GROOTKRAAL
1892 to 1893
Area: Hoopstad

Not recorded

GROOT RIETGAT
1894 to 1900
Area: Kroonstad

Not recorded

HAMMONIA
January 1892 to 1900
Area: Ficksburg

Not recorded

HARRISMITH
16.09.1850 to 26.06.1856
01.01.1876 to 1900

Post office

1   0C "BETAALD"   26.07.1856
(OFS Ph. Soc)
1868
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
2   NUMBER "3" 16 bars 13.03.1873
(OFS Ph. Soc)
22.11.1890
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
3   NUMBER "3" 11 bars 17.05.1880
(OFS Ph. Soc)
1890
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
4   DARC "O.F.STATE"   16.11.1872
(OFS Ph. Soc)
18.09.1884
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
5   1C "O.V.S." Asterisks on sides
28mm
17.02.1883
(Aab)
1886
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
6   1C "O.V.S." Asterisks on sides
28mm
05.01.1884
(OFS Ph. Soc
12.07.1884
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
7   2C "O.V.STAAT"   31.03.1878
(OFS Ph. Soc
16.03.1887
(OFS Ph. Soc
(Aab)
 
8   1C "Blank" Last seen
13.06.1901
(OFS Ph. Soc
10.12.1886
(OFS Ph. Soc
Occupation  
9   1C "O.V.S." 27mm
larger O
H in middle of day
23.09.1887?
(Aab)
   
10   1C "O.V.S." 25mm
Name 8 to 16 o'clock
Short first H
31.08.1891
(OFS Ph. Soc
02.12.1899
(OFS Ph. Soc
 
11   1C "O.V.S." 25mm
Name 8 to 16 o'clock
Long first H
Small year
28.03.1893
(OFS Ph. Soc
19.08.1895
(OFS Ph. Soc
 
12   1C "O.V.S." 26mm
Name 8 to 16 o'clock
OVS close to name
 
18.12.1893
(OFS Ph. Soc
29.12.1897
(OFS Ph. Soc
 
13   1C "O.V.S." 26mm
Name 8 to 16 o'clock
OVS bigger gap  to name
 
21.12.1896
(OFS Ph. Soc
04.06.1897
(OFS Ph. Soc
 
14   1C "O.V.S." 22mm
Name 8:30 to 15 o'clock
09.12.1886
(OFS Ph. Soc)
24.11.1899
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
       
15   1C "O.V.S." 25mm
Name 9 to 15 o'clock
Thin type
16.11.1897
(OFS Ph. Soc)
28.11.1899
(OFS Ph. Soc)
 
       
16   1C "O.V.S." 25mm
Name 9 to 15 o'clock
Thick type

Last seen
28.11.1899
(OFS Ph. Soc)
07.09.1897
(OFS Ph. Soc)
.Occupation  

HARRISMITH RAIL
1898 to 1900
Area: Harrismith

Not recorded