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Post Offices LORENA to LOUWSDRIFT

LORENA
05.12.1927 to 1945
Area: Western Transvaal
1   2C "Bars + cross"   29 mm 13.09.1931
(Putzel)		    

LORRAINE
13.07.1954 to 18.04.1960
Renamed from Kraggakamma
Postal agent
Area: Port Elizabeth
1   2C "Blank" 26 mm 14.11.1955
(Putzel)		 07.02.1956
(Aab)		  

LOSBERG
Union to 25.05.1953
Area: Potchefstroom
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 11.06.1923
(Putzel)		    

LOSDORINGS
05.11.1939 to Republic
Postal agent
Area: Wesselsbron
1   2C "Blank" New discovery 18.02.1955
(Aab)		    

LOSKOP (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Estcourt
1   2C "NATAL" Bars on sides

First seen
13.05.1910
(Aab)		 Union 26.08.1931
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" 28 mm 15.07.1940
(Putzel)		 19.11.1946
(Aab)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 19.12.1942
(Visser)		 28.01.1943
(Visser)		  
4   2C "Cross" 26 mm
Last seen
17.08.1978		 30.09.1957
(Putzel)		 Republic  

LOSPERSFONTEIN
31.01.1927 to 21.10.1957
09.03.1959 to Republic
Area: Brits
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm
(Putzel)		    

LOTA
05.10.1944 to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Cross" New discovery 05.10.1944
(Aab)		 11.10.1945
(Aab)		  

LOTENI
Union to 07.12.1931
Area: Nottingham Road
NOT  RECORDED

LOTHAIR
12.01.1924 to Republic
Area: Ermelo
1   2C "Bars + cross"   26.11.1934
(Putzel)		 17.01.1936
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" Thin lines 08.01.1955
(Putzel)		 22.06.1955
(Aab)		  

LOTLHAKANE
01.01.1914 to Republic
Postal agent
Area: Mafeking
1   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 10.06.1952
(Putzel)		 02.06.1955
(Aab)		  

LOUBAD
Union to Republic
Area: Nylstroom
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen
16.05.1903
(Aab)		 Union 05.04.1934
(Putzel)		  

LOUBSERSRUS
1955 to Republic
Area: Zeerust
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

LOUIS BOTHA AIRPORT
1960 to Republic
Area: Durban
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

LOUIS MOORE
03.01.1921 to 1923
Area: Louis Trichardt
1   2C "Blank"

Visser

 27 mm ??.07.1923
(Visser)		    

LOUIS TRICHARDT
Union to Republic
1   3C "Asterisk" First seen
07.10.1905
(Aab)		 Union 10.06.1931
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank" 28 mm 01.09.1911
(Aab)		 13.05.1923
(Putzel)		  
3   2C-D "Blank"   32 mm 27.01.1921
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 08.04.1924
(Putzel)		    
5   2C-D "Blank" 30 mm 17.01.1928
(Aab)		 11.10.1930
(Aab)		  
6   2C-D "Blank" 31 mm 18.07.1934
(Putzel)		 08.10.1935
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Blank" 27 mm
D next to date		 05.02.1934
(Aab)		 26.03.1934
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Blank"
Visser		 27 mm
O next to date		 1938
(Visser)		 12.04.1945
(Visser)		  
9   2C-D "Blank" 31 mm 14.02.1945
(Aab)		 09.01.1956
(Putzel)		  
10   2C "Blank"   30 mm
(Putzel)		    
11   2C "Blank"   26 mm 24.07.1951
(Putzel)		    
12   2C "Blank" 29 mm
Last seen
10.08.1978		 ??.06.1952
(Putzel)		 Republic  
13   2C "Blank" 26 mm
S and T apart		 26.04.1948
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  
14   2C "Blank"   25 mm
9 to 3 o'clock		 28.05.1953
(Putzel)		    
15   2C "Blank" 26 mm

Last seen
16.08.1978
Date between O and U		 28.05.1953
(Putzel)		 1954
(Aab)		  
16   PARCEL     Name between
3 bars		 1930
(Putzel)		    

LOUISVALE
01.02.1918 to Republic
Area: Upington
1   1C "Blank"   24 mm 23.06.1921
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Bar" 25 mm 1923
(Putzel)		 28.11.1933
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank" 25 mm ??.11.1935
(Putzel)		 18.08.1956
(Putzel)		  

LOUISVALE ROAD (STATION)
03.06.1929 to Republic
Area: Upington
1   2C "Blank" 29 mm 10.07.1935
(Aab)		 11.04.1940
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"   26 mm 16.10.1957
(Putzel)		    

LOURDES
19.07.1926 to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Bars + cross"   20.12.1929
(Putzel)		 22.12.1947
(Aab)		  

LOURENSRUST
Union to 1924
Area: Vrede
1   2C "S.AFRICA"     10.03.1915
(Putzel)		    

LOUTERWATER
13.06.1955 to Republic
Renamed from Lauterwater
Area: Uniondale
1   2C "S.AFRICA?"   31 mm
(Visser)		    
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 13.01.1960
(Visser)		    

LOUWNA
14.11.1949 to 1950
08.05.1961 to Republic
Renamed from Klein-Tswaing (1961)
Area: Calvinia
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

LOUWSBURG
Union to Republic
Area: Vryheid
1   2C "NATAL" First seen
19.05.1907
(Aab)		 Union ??.12.1911
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "NATAL"
Visser		 Skeleton 12.11.1911
(Visser)		    
3   2C "S.AFRICA"   06.12.1924
(Aab)		 09.10.1958
(Putzel)		  

LOUWS CREEK
October 1910 to Republic
Area: Barberton
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" Last seen
27.08.1961		 09.06.1910 Republic  

LOUWSDRIFT
Union to 01.12.1952
Area: Calvinia
NOT  RECORDED