Postal History of
the Transvaal
Post Offices CANADA STATION to CLEVELAND

CANADA STATION (JUNCTION) (RAIL)
1904 to Union
Area:
Johannesburg

1   2C "TRANSVAAL" Last seen
22.08.1912
(Aab)
07.12.1906
(S.Payne)
Union  

CANTONMENT B.O. MIDDELBURG
 15.02.1904 to 01.02.1907
Area:
Middelburg

1   2C "TVL"   16.01.1905
(Aab)
27.08.1906
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "T TVL"   13.10.1904
(Putzel)
04.12.1904
(Aab)
 

CANTONMENT POTCHEFSTROOM
 01.07.1903 to Union
Area:
Potchefstroom

1   2C "TVL"     15.10.1904
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "T"   02.12.1904
(Aab)
06.05.1905
(Putzel)
 
       
3   2C "POTCHEFSTROOM"   19.11.1906
(Jon Lund)
14.02.1910
(Aab)
 

Jon Lund
       
4   2C "Asterisk"
Braintree and Witham Philatelic Society
New discovery 07.11.1904
(Jon Lund)
30.04.1906
(Putzel)
 

CANTONMENT B.O. PRETORIA
 01.03.1904 to 15.03.1904
Area:
Pretoria
Renamed to Roberts Heights

1   2C "PRETORIA"     05.05.1904
(Putzel)
   

CANTONMENT B.O. STANDERTON
 15.02.1904 to 01.01.1909
Area:
Standerton

1   2C "STANDERTON TVL"   25.04.1904
(Putzel)
18.07.1904
(Lundy)
 
2   2C-D
Half-moon
"STANDERTON TVL"   27.01.1906
(Aab)
18.12.1906
(Putzel)
 
3   PARCEL  
Visser
 
(Visser)
   

 CAROLINA
 15.08.1902 to Union
Area:
Carolina

1   2C "Cross"
Transvaal Philatelist
Last seen
22.08.1929
(S.Payne)
15.09.1902
(S.Payne)
Union  
2   3C "Blank"   No year slug 25.07.19??
(Putzel)
   
3   2C-D
Half-moon
"Cross"
Transvaal Philatelist
Last seen:
??.07.1918
(S.Payne)
26.11.1905
(Transvaal Philatelist)
Union  
       

CEDARMONT
1909 to Union
Area:
Standerton

Not recorded
Postmarks in Union period

CHIMES
April 1909 to Union
Area:
Johannesburg

Not recorded

CHRISTIANA
17.09.1900 to Union
Area: Christiana

1   RUBBER "Blank" Christiana in centre 17.09.1900
(S.Payne)
17.09.1901
(Aab)
 
       
2   2C "Blank"   26.03.1903
(S.Payne)
27.01.1907
(S.Payne)
 
       
3   2C-D
Half moon
"Asterisk"
Transvaal Philatelist
  25.05.1903
(S.Payne)
16.12.1903
(S.Payne)
 
4   2C "TRANSVAAL"
Transvaal Philatelist
Asterisks
 on side

Last seen: 03.03.1923
(S.Payne)

06.08.1907
(S.Payne)
Union  
5   2C "T"
Transvaal Philatelist
Last seen: 26.02.1936
(S.Payne)
05.12.1903
(S.Payne)
Union  

CHUNESPOORT
23.03.1903 to Union
Area:
Pietersburg

1   3C "Asterisk" Last seen: 18.11.1958
(Aab)

PA closed
1920
all postmarks
from 1930
dated 18 November
(stolen postmark?
19.12.1907
(Putzel)
Union  

CHURCH STREET WEST PRETORIA
08.10.1902 to Union
Area:
Pretoria

1   2C "PRETORIA"   08.10.1902
(Putzel)
??.07.1909
(S.Payne)
 

CLEVELAND
 01.10.1901
to Union
Area:
Johannesburg

1   2C-D "Asterisk"   23.12.1901
(Aab)
03.09.1906
(S.Payne)
 
       
2   2C "Asterisk"
Transvaal Philatelist
  02.10.1901
(Aab)
??.07.1906
(Visser)
 
3   2C "TRANSVAAL" Last seen: 09.05.1917
(S.Payne)
26.08.1907
(Aab)
Union  
4   2C-D "TRANSVAAL"
Transvaal Philatelist
Inner circle
 extends left of the
 top bar of “T”
01.07.1907
(S.Payne)
26.07.1909
(S.Payne)
 
       
(5)   2C-D "TRANSVAAL" Inner circle
above “T”
10.10.1910
(Aab)
10.01.1918
(S.Payne)
 
6 "TRANSVAAL" 1C "Blank" Skeleton
New discovery
11.01.1908
(Aab)
17.01.1908
(Aab)
 
       
(7) "TVL" 1C "Blank" Skeleton
New discovery

First seen
09.06.1910