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Post Offices LOVAT to LUIPAARDSVLEI

LOVAT (RAIL) (STATION)
Union to 11.01.1926
Area: Near Lindley

1   BONC "93" Used in union Union    
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm
ORC removed
13.03.1911
(Aab)
01.04.1912
(Aab)
 

LOVEDALE
Union to Republic
Area: Alice

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
05.07.1886

(Aab)
Union 18.10.1915
(Frescura)
 
2   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 1927
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
06.09.1935
(Putzel)
09.09.1935
(Aab)
 
4   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 18.09.1936
(Visser)
   
5   2C "Blank" Wide V 30.03.1937
(Aab)
04.05.1943
(Aab)
 
6   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 05.05.1947
(Visser)
   
7   2C "Blank" Narrow V 19.03.1954
(Putzel)
28.07.1954
(Aab)
 

LOWER ADAMSON (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Burgersdorp

1   2C "S.AFRICA"     ??.12.1923
(Putzel)
1943
(Visser)
 

LOWER BLINKWATER
01.11.1917 to Republic
Postal agent
Area: Fort Beaufort

1   2C "Blank"   20.06.1955
(Aab)
20.11.1956
(Putzel)
 

LOWER DIDIMA
01.03.1911 to 01.04.1913
Area: Kamastone

NOT  RECORDED

LOWER DIKGAT(H)LONG
1921 to Republic
Area: Kuruman

1   1C "Bar"   12.11.1921
(Aab)

(Putzel)
 
2   1C "Bar"   30.04.1930
(Aab)
   
3   2C "DIKGATLONG"   13.07.1935
(Putzel)
194?
(Aab)
 
4   2C "Blank"   DIKGATHLONG 1957
(Putzel)
   

LOWER INCLINE (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Sterkstroom

1 "SIDING" 2C "S.AFRICA"     1915
(Visser)
   
(2) "STA" 2C "Blank"     1962
(Putzel)
   

LOWER KAMNATIE
Union to 05.05.1947
Renamed to Onder Kamnassie
Area: Oudtshoorn

1   2C "Bars + cross"    
(Putzel)
   

LOWER LOTENI
07.12.1931 to Republic
Area: Nottingham Road

1 "LOWER" 2C "LOTENI"   Bars on sides
(Putzel)
   

LOWER PAARL
Union to 01.11.1912
Renamed to Noorder Paarl
Area: Paarl

1   1C "Blank" Name 9 to 3 o'clock

First seen:

19.02.1906

(Aab)
Union 01.02.1912
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
09.07.1902

(Aab)
Union 03.11.1911  

LOWER PITSING (LOWER PITSENG)
07.05.1919 to Republic
Area: Maclear

1   2C "S.AFRICA"     13.10.1949
(Putzel)
   

LOWER TSITSANA
01.02.1912 to Republic
Area: Maclear

1   2C "S.AFRICA"   Last seen
10.05.1962
(Putzel)
26.01.1915
(Putzel)
Republic  

LOWER TUGELA
Union to 11.12.1911
Renamed to Tugela
Area: Durban

NOT  RECORDED

LOWER TYUMIE
Union to 05.06.1922
Area: Alice

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
15.07.1892
(Frescura)
Union 17.04.1917
(Frescura)
 
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 28.04.1922
(Putzel)
   

LOWER UMKOMAAS
Union to 23.01.1912
Area: Durban

1   2C "NATAL"
First seen
09.07.1909
(Putzel)
Union 23.01.1912
(Aab)
 

LOWLANDS (RAIL)
01.10.1914 to Republic
Area: Estcourt

1   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
10.06.1916
(Aab)

(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Bar"     1931
(Putzel)
19.06.1937
(Putzel)
 

LOXTON
Union to Republic
Area: Victoria West

1   1C "CGH"   First seen:
03.12.1897
(Frescura)
Union ??.??.1924
(Putzel)
 
2   1C "Blank"
First seen:
11.01.1904
(Frescura)
Union 05.09.1914
(Frescura)
 
3   1C "Blank" Relief 11.12.1919
(Aab)
   
4   1C "Bars + cross"   31.01.1923
(Aab)
   
5   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 18.06.1924
(Visser)
   
6   1C "Bars + cross"     ??.11.1926
(Putzel)
   
7   1C "Blank" Skeleton 18.09.1927
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "Bars + cross"   27.05.1935
(Aab)
18.01.1937
(Putzel)
 

LUBALEKU
1954 to Republic
Area: Transkei

1   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)
   

LUBANZI
23.07.1956 to Republic
Area: Transkei

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

LUCERNE
01.11.1913 to Republic
Renamed from Jacobsdal, Transvaal
Area: Zeerust

1   2C "Bars + cross"   SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
1913
(Visser)
??.04.1915
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross"   ??.11.1923
(Putzel)
11.02.1956
(Putzel)
 

LUCERNVALE
28.01.1935 to 14.11.1955
Area: Middelburg, Cape

NOT  RECORDED

LUCKHOFF
Union to Republic
Area: Fauresmith

1   1C "Blank"
Visser
ORC removed 20.06.1910
(Visser)
   
2   2C "Blank"   25 mm
ORC removed
??.08.1915
(Putzel)
03.03.1924
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Bar"   04.06.1935
(Aab)
29.11.1955
(Putzel)
 

LUDEKE (LUDEKA)
27.09.1926 to 05.07.1950
Renamed to Mkantsweni
Area: Transkei

1   2C "Bars + cross"   LUDEKA ??.03.1938
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Bars + cross"   LUDEKE 05.07.1950
(Putzel)
   

LUDIWANA
1950 to 25.09.1950
Area: Transkei

NOT  RECORDED

LUDLOW (RAIL)
Union to 22.05.1961
Area: Naauwpoort

1   1C "Blank?"     08.05.1925
(Putzel)
   
2   1C "RTO"   First seen:
30.05.1907
(Frescura)
Union 10.01.1916
(Putzel)
 
       
3   2C "Bars + cross"     01.12.1955
(Putzel)
   

LUFUTA
1955 to Republic
Renamed from Lafuto
Area: Transkei

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

LUHEWINI
04.03.1941 to Republic
Area: Transkei

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

LUHWAYIZO
07.07.1958 to Republic
Area: Transkei

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

LUIPARDSKOP
01.08.1911 to 13.03.1922
Renamed from Boschvarksfontein
Area: Edenburg

1   2C "Bars + cross" New discovery 08.05.1914
(Aab)
   

LUIPAARDSVLEI (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: West Rand

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
25 mm 10.01.1913
(Visser)
   
2 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"   S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRICA
below date
14.01.1916
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Blank"   RAIL removed 01.11.1930
(Putzel)
1935
(Putzel)
 
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 16.04.1941
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "Blank" 26 mm

Last seen
22.09.1978
(Putzel)
29.06.1942
(Aab)
Republic  
6   2C "Blank"   28 mm

Last seen
07.11.1963
(Putzel)
12.12.194?
(Aab)
Republic  
7   2C-D "Blank" 31 mm 07.02.1956
(Aab)
20.11.1957
(Aab)