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PARADYS
Union to 01.03.1915
Area: Kroonstad

1   BONC "25" Allocated
 September 1907

Withdrawn
Union unknown
     

PARIJS
Union to 1923
Renamed to Parys
Name kept on alternating between Parijs and Parys up to 1933
Area: Northern Freestate

1   2C "Bars + cross" S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date
14.05.1917
(Aab)
20.04.1920
(Putzel)
 
`2 "OFS" 1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1921
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm 1925
(Putzel)
16.11.1926
(Aab)
 
4   2C "Bars + cross" 28 mm 12.11.1921
(Aab)
06.10.1922
(Aab)
 
5   2C "Bars + cross"   Thin bars
New discoverry
11.10.1933
(Aab)
   
       

PARK AVENUE
Union to 01.10.1914
01.03.1916 to 01.06.1916
27.03.1921 to 08.04.1929
Area: East London

1   2C "Blank"   26 mm
(Putzel)
   
2 "E.L." 2C "Bars + cross"   24 mm 1923
(Putzel)
   

PARKEND
02.04.1951 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "Blank" 25 mm 02.04.1951
(Aab)
04.09.1959
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Cross" 25 mm

Last seen
28.08.1961
(Putzel)
11.04.1959
(Aab)
Republic  

PARKERTON
01.06.1917 to 02.11.1947
Renamed from Leeupan
Area: Frankfort, OFS

1   2C "Bars + cross"   24 mm 18.07.1920
(Putzel)
   

PARKHURST
01.05.1939 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "Blank" 25 mm

Last seen
01.02.1978
(Putzel)
03.03.1955
(Aab)
Republic  
2   2C "JOHANNESBURG" 25 mm

Last seen
16.08.1978
(Putzel)

(Aab)
Republic  

PARKLANDS
01.03.1919 to Republic
Renamed from Sachsenwald
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C-D "JOHANNESBURG"   30.10.1923
(Aab)
05.11.1946
(Aab)
 
2   2C "JOHANNESBURG" Last seen
24.03.1975
(Putzel)
26.07.1944
(Aab)
Republic  

PARK RYNIE (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Durban

1   2C "RAIL"   26 mm 20.07.1924
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 
       
2   2C "Blank"   26 mm 26.02.1955
(Putzel)
   

PARKVIEW
23.06.1924 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   29 mm 11.06.1936
(Putzel)
   
2   2C-D "JOHANNESBURG"
Visser
  07.04.1945
(Putzel)
27.04.1953
(Visser)
 
3   2C "JOHANNESBURG" 26 mm 26.01.1946
(Putzel)
04.06.1960
(Aab)
 

PARKVIEW DEPOT
1939 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

NOT  RECORDED

PARLIAMENTARY TOUR
30.08.1924 to 31.10.1924
Area: Southern Africa

          30.08.1924
(Aab)
31.10.1924
(Aab)
 

PARMA
01.10.1912 to 15.11.1920
Area: ?

NOT  RECORDED

PAROW
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
15
.07.1904

(Aab)
Union 26.10.1926
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" Longer bars 02.04.1928
(Aab)
16.04.1936
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Bars + cross" Shorter bars 16.04.1934
(Aab)
16.04.1936
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Bars + cross" Thinner bars
small name

(Aab)
04.06.1953
(Putzel)
 
5   2C "Bars + cross"   Long thin lines
(Putzel)
   
6   PARCEL    
(Visser)
   

PAROW DEPOT
01.08.1951 to Republic
Area: Cape Town

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PAROW-OOS (EAST)
30.07.1951 to Republic
Area: Cape Town

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PARYS
1912 to Republic
Name kept on alternating between Parijs and Parys up to 1933
Area: Nothern OFS on the Vaal River

1   2C "Blank" O.R.C. removed ??.10.1910
(Aab)
28.03.1912
(Putzel)
 
2 "OFS" 1C "Blank"   Skeleton 02.02.1921
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm
Short bars
19.12.1929
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm
Longer thin bars
1935
(Putzel)
05.12.1944
(Aab)
 
5   2C "Bars + cross" 30 mm
Longer bars
25.07.1933
(Aab)
06.03.1936
(Putzel)
 
6   2C "Blank"   28 mm 14.07.1943
(Putzel)
   
7   2C "Blank"   25 mm
Gap between bars + cross
16.05.1945
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "Bars + cross" Long head to P 05.12.1944
(Putzel)
   
9   2C "Bars + cross" Short head to P

Last seen
14.08.1978
(Putzel)

1949
(Putzel)
Republic  

PATATASRIVIER
Union to 28.08.1933
1934 to 15.03.1937
Area: Worcester

NOT  RECORDED

PATENTIE (PATENSIE) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Humansdorp

1   1C "CGH"   First seen:
16.04.1902
(Putzel)
Union 27.10.1914
(Frescura)
 
2 "RAIL" 2C "Bars + cross"     ??.05.1922
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Blank" 25 mm 19.12.1931
(Putzel)
17.12.1942
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Blank" 29 mm 09.07.1935
(Aab)
02.02.1942
(Aab)
 
5   2C "Blank" 26 mm
PATENSIE
 

Last seen
12.03.1962
(Putzel)

23.12.1950
(Aab)
 Republic  

PATERNOSTER
Union to Republic
Area: West Coast

1   1C "CGH"   16.02.1917
(Frescura)
15.10.1940
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Blank"   28 mm 1942
(Putzel)
   

PATOKA
21.06.1927 to 10.08.1931
Area: Vryburg

NOT  RECORDED

PATRIOTSFONTEIN
24.12.1923 to 05.07.1957
Area: Vereeniging

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
  29.12.1936
(Putzel)
28.02.1944
(Visser)
 

PATRIOTSKLIP
Union to 01.11.1948
Area: Aliwal North

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
14.12.1904

(Aab)
Union 16.09.1912
(Fresacura)
 
2   2C "Blank"   29.06.1940
(Visser)
   

PAULPIETERSBURG
Union to Republic
Area: Vryheid

1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides

First seen:
17.06.1905
(Aab)
Union 19.05.1913
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Blank" 30 mm 1914
(Aab)
15.10.1921
(Putzel)
 
3   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 23.04.1921
(Visser)
   
4   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 09.08.1922
(Visser)
   
5   2C "Blank" 26 mm 09.02.1927
(Aab)
??.08.1932
(Putzel)
 
6   2C "Bar"   28 mm 1932
(Putzel)
   
7   1C "1948"
Putzel
Skeleton 27.08.1948
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "Blank" 26 mm
8 to 4 o'clock
13.10.1949
(Aab)
29.01.1957
(Aab)
 
9   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 1960
(Visser)
   

PAUL ROUX
01.12.1913 to Republic
Renamed from Rexford
Area: Berthlehem

1   2C "S.AFRICA"     18.11.1925
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm 26.02.1934
(Aab)
13.03.1936
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Blank" 30 mm 22.01.1942
(Aab)
??.06.1942
(Putzel)
 
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 194?
(Putzel)
   
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1959
(Putzel)
   

PAVIESVLEI
01.04.1915 to 1952
Renamed to Papiesvlei
Area: Caledon

1   2C "Blank"   30 mm 194?
(Putzel)
   

PAYNEVILLE
02.11.1942 to Republic
Area: East Rand

1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 194?
(Putzel)
   
2   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 17.11.1942
(Visser)
   
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 05.06.1959
(Putzel)
   

PEACHAVEN
06.03.1944 to Republic
Area: Vereeniging

1   2C "Blank"   29 mm 1947
(Putzel)
1953
(Aab)
 
       
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton 13.12.1949
(Putzel)
   

PEACHDALE
01.11.1912 to 23.10.1950
Area: Vryburg

1   2C "S.AFRICA"
Visser
  20.12.1928
(Visser)
   

PEARSTON
Union to Republic
Area: ?

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
02.06.1890
(Frescura)
Union 03.06.1911
(Frescura)
 
2   1C "Blank"   Name 10 to 2 o'clock 22.01.1912
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross"     01.05.1923
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "S.AFRICA"     31.05.1924
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "Blank" Narrow N
Oval O
10.11.1932
(Putzel)
24.02.1934
(Aab)
 
6   2C "Blank" Wide N
Round O
25.11.1944
(Aab)
   

PEARTREE
01.02.1926 to 15.09.1930
(CGH PO existed)
Area: Uitenhage

1   2C "?"
Visser
 
(Visser)
   

PEDDIE
Union to Republic
Area: King Williams Town

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
14.12.1898
(Putzel)
Union 18.06.1914
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
08.10.1929
(Aab)
17.06.1935
(Aab)
 
3   2C "S.AFRICA"    
(Putzel)
   
4 "S.AFR" 1C "Blank"
Visser
  04.06.1956
(Visser)
   
5   1C "Blank"
Visser
  30.12.1959
(Visser)
   

PEELTON (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: King Williams Town

1   1C "Blank"
First seen:
02
.10.1886
(Frescura)
Union 18.08.1942
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross"    
(Putzel)
   

PEGWILL
28.11.1932 to 21.05.1934
Area: Pretoria

NOT  RECORDED

PEISERTON
Union to 01.11.1911
Area: Griqua Town

NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmark known

PEKA
Basutoland using South African stamps up to1 December 1933

See Basutoland

PELINDABA
20.09.1926 to 18.02.1932
Area: Pretoria

NOT  RECORDED

PELLA - Cape -
Union to Republic
Area: Namaqualand

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
08
.03.1906
(Frescura)
Union 08.07.1925
(Frescura)
 

PELLA - Transvaal -
Union to 01.09.1911
Renamed to Tamposstad
Area: Zeerust

NOT  RECORDED