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Post Offices PIEKPLAAS to PINEVIEW

PIEKPLAAS
27.09.1926 to 08.12.1930
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

PIENAARSRIVER (PIENAARSRIVIER) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Warmbaths
1   2C "R.O." First seen
23.07.1903
(Aab)		 Union 23.01.1919
(Putzel)		  
2 "RAIL" 2C "Bars + cross"   ??.01.1921
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank"   1922
(Visser)		 02.02.1940
(Edriek)		  
4   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton ?0.08.1935
(Visser)		    
5   2C "Cross"     31.10.1947
(Putzel)		    

PIENAARSVLEI
01.01.1918 to 03.08.1953
Area: Beaufort West
1   2C "Bar"   29 mm 28.09.1948
(Putzel)		    

PIENSRAND
1937 to 09.08.1954
Area: Paulpietersburg
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 26 mm 25.06.1937
(Visser)		    

PIESANGHOEK
1953 to Republic
Renamed from Pisanghoek
Area: Louis Trichardt
(1)   2C "Blank"   26 mm

First seen
28.08.1962
(Putzel)		      

PIETERMARITZBURG
See separate listing

PIETERMARITZBURG INDIAN OFFICE
Union to 01.10.1914
28.02.1924 to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C "PIETERMARITZBURG"
Visser		 26 mm 02.06.1949
(Visser)		    
2   2C "INDIAN OFFICE
INDIERKANTOOR"		   31 mm 08.09.1954
(Putzel)		    

PIETERMARITZBURGKAMP/ CAMP
30.06.1941 to 04.03.1946
1947 to 06.09.1955
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1 "CAMP" 2C "Blank" 25 mm
Bilingual
KAMP/CAMP

 		 19.11.1941
(Aab)		 03.06.1943
(Aab)		  
2 "KAMP" 2C "Blank"   30 mm
Bilingual
CAMP/KAMP		 01.11.1943
(Putzel)		    

PIETERMEINTJIES RAIL
Union to 1911
01.03.1920 to Republic
Area: Laingsburg
1   2C "Blank" 29 mm ??.03.1933
(Aab)		 20.09.1935
(Putzel)		  

PIETERS (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Ladysmith
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 29 mm 05.02.1946
(Visser)		    

PIETERSBURG
Union to Republic
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"
Visser		   21.06.1910
(Visser)		    
2   2C-D "TRANSVAAL" First seen
24.09.1908
(Putzel)		 Union 31.08.1911  
3   1C "Blank" Skeleton 08.04.1914
(Aab)		 16.04.1914
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "TRANSVAAL"   08.12.1913
(Aab)		 02.09.1918
(Putzel)		  
5   2C-D "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 02.06.1914
(Aab)		 08.02.1915
(Aab)		  
6   2C-D "Blank" 31 mm 22.11.1915
(Aab)		 23.12.1915
(Putzel)		  
7   2C "SOUTH AFRICA" 25 mm 12.05.1914
(Putzel)		 ??.08.1915
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Bar" 33 mm
Heavy bar		 25.03.1920
(Putzel)		 13.10.1921
(Aab)		  
9   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 03.12.1921
(Visser)		    
10   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1925
(Putzel)		    
11   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 07.07.1928
(Visser)		    
12   2C-D "Blank"   33 mm 22.05.1926
(Putzel)		    
13   2C "Blank" 31 mm 14.06.1926
(Putzel)		 18.07.1933
(Aab)		  
14   2C "Blank"   26 mm 19.12.1931
(Putzel)		    
15   2C-D "Bar" 31 mm 22.12.1931
(Putzel)		 01.06.1932
(Aab)		  
16   2C-D "Bar" 30 mm
Narrow P		 30.07.1935
(Visser)		    
17   2C "Bar"   29 mm 07.02.1931
(Putzel)		    
18   2C "Bar"   30 mm
Larger inner circle		 02.02.1932
(Putzel)		    
19   2C "Bar" 29 mm
Smaller inner circle		 16.07.1932
(Aab)		 1933
(Putzel)		  
20   2C-D "Blank"   28 mm 23.06.1934
(Putzel)		    
21   2C "T"   25 mm 193?
(Putzel)		    
22   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Name parallel to date		 193?
(Putzel)		 14.07.1938
(Aab)		  
23   2C "Blank"
Visser		 26 mm
Name below date		 15.10.1937
(Visser)		    
24   2C "Blank"   28 mm
Name below date
Wide inner circle		 12.03.1947
(Putzel)		    
25   1C "Blank" Skeleton 01.03.1948
(Aab)		 1948
(Putzel)		  
26   2C "Blank"   26 mm
Name just below date		 26.03.1946
(Putzel)		    
27   2C "Blank"   28 mm
Name above date		 08.06.1950
(Putzel)		    
28   2C "Blank"   28 mm
Name parallel to date		 194?
(Putzel)		    
29   2C "Blank"   30 mm
Name above date		 04.09.1954
(Putzel)		    
30   2C "Blank"   26 mm
Name parallel to date		 21.11.1954
(Putzel)		    
31   2C "Bar" Relief type 2 21.11.1954
(Putzel)		    
32   2C "1"   Index 1 29.05.1952
(Putzel)		    
33   2C "2"   Index 2 10.01.1960
(Putzel)		    
34   2C "No. 8" Index 8 19.09.1950
(Putzel)		 13.11.1950
(Aab)		  
35   PARCEL     3 bars above and below
name
Larger lettering		      
36   PARCEL   3 bars above and below
name
Smaller lettering
(Visser)		    

PIETERSBURG STATION
01.04.1912 to Unknown
Area: Pietersburg
1   2C "2"   01.04.1912
(Putzel)
(Putzel)		  

PIET PLESSIS
20.06.1949 to Republic
renamed from Roelofskamp
Area: Vryburg
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PIET RETIEF
Union to Republic
Area: Eastern Transvaal
1   2C "Asterisk"     31.10.1910
(Putzel)		    
2   2C
Half moon		 "Asterisk"   24.10.1911
(Putzel)		 17.04.1912
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank" 31 mm 20.04.1917
(Putzel)		 30.07.1918
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Bar" 25 mm
Asterisks on sides		 01.04.1921
(Aab)		 17.03.1924
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Bar"   31 mm 10.01.1925
(Putzel)		    
6   2C "S.AFRICA"   25 mm 30.04.1923
(Putzel)		    
7   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 1934
(Visser)		    
8   2C "Blank" 31 mm 24.04.1941
(Aab)		 22.04.1952
(Putzel)		  
       
9   2C "Blank"
could be number 8		 26 mm 13.05.1949
(Putzel)		    
10   2C "Blank"   27 mm
8 to 4 o'clock		 13.10.1953
(Putzel)		    
11   1C "56"
Visser		 Skeleton 03.10.1956
(Visser)		    
12   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 15.11.1957
(Visser)		    
13   2C "PAID"   28 mm 1955
(Putzel)		    
14   PARCEL    
(Visser)		    

PIGGS PEAK
Swaziland using South African stamps up to 2 January 1933
See Swaziland

PIKETBERG
20.02.1940 to Republic
Renamed from Piquetberg
Area: West Coast
1   2C "Blank" Earlier date than
change of name		 20.02.1940
(Aab)		 20.03.1946
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Bram Leeflang		 Skeleton

New discovery		 22.01.1944
(Bram
Leeflang)		    

PILANSBERG
01.09.1915 to Republic
Area: Rustenburg
1   2C "Blank"   31 mm 06.11.1916
(Putzel)		    

PILGRIMS REST
Union to Republic
Area: Lydenburg
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" 28 mm
Sometimes dots on sides visible

First seen
17.07.1908
(Aab)

 Union 27.05.1911
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "TRANSVAAL"   25 mm

First seen
26.09.1908
(Aab)

 Union 05.02.1913
(Putzel)		  
       
3   2C "TRANSVAAL" 28 mm
Asterisks on sides		 24.05.1911
(Putzel)		 09.12.1919
(Aab)		  
4   2C "S.AFRICA" 28 mm 14.02.1912
(Putzel)		 29.01.1932
(Aab)		  
5   2C "TRANSVAAL" 28 mm
(Putzel)		 04.05.1943
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Blank"   26 mm 13.12.1955
(Putzel)		    
(7)   PARCEL   Not known when used
(Aab)		    
8   PARCEL   Larger lettering
(Visser)		    

PIMVILLE
01.01.1936 to Republic
Renamed from Nancefield
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "Blank"   25 mm 26.10.1948
(Putzel)		    

PINDO
03.06.1957 to Republic
Area: Dundee
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

PINEDENE (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   25 mm 02.11.1931
(Putzel)		    

PINELANDS
21.08.1926 to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Blank" 26 mm 02.05.1949
(Aab)		 1955
(Putzel)		  

PINE LANE
14.05.1923 to 29.08.1949
Renamed to Noorder Paarl
Area: Paarl
NOT  RECORDED

PINE STREET
21.01.1924 to Republic
Renamed from Durban Indian Office
Area: Durban
1   2C "DURBAN"   25 mm 02.11.1925
(Putzel)		 1930
(Visser)		  
2   2C "DURBAN"   26 mm 1953
(Putzel)		    
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "DURBAN" 25 mm
10 to 2 o'clock
Wide P

Last seen
30.11.1974
(Putzel)		 06.02.1942
(Aab)		 Republic  
5 "/DURBAN" 1C "Blank"   16.02.1944
(Aab)		 30.08.1960
(Putzel)		  
       
6   2C "1" Index 1 06.05.1954
(Aab)		 26.08.1957
(Putzel)		  
7   PARCEL   All capital letters (Putzel)    
8   PARCEL     (Putzel)    

PINETOWN
Union to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "S.AFRICA" 28 mm 06.08.1918
(Aab)		 28.01.1948
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 05.07.1949
(Visser)		    
3   2C "S.AFRICA" 28 mm 26.10.1950
(Aab)		 18.09.1959
(Aab)		  
4   2C "1"   Index 1

Last seen
24.05.1978
(Putzel)		 01.12.1955
(Aab)		 Republic  
       
5   2C "3"   Index 3 29.09.1958
(Putzel)		 01.11.1959
(Putzel)		  

PINETOWN DEPOT
1955 to Republic
Area: Durban
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PINEVIEW
22.09.1947 to Republic
Area: Humansdorp
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known