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POTCHEFSTROOM
Union to Republic
1   2C-D "TRANSVAAL" First seen
12.12.1907
(Putzel)		 Union 09.10.1913
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Asterisk"   First seen
13.10.1908
(Aab)		 Union 19.08.1910
(Putzel)		  
3 "TVL" 1C "Blank"
Ian Paterson		 Skeleton
Also see Transvaal		 17.11.1910
(Visser)		 18.11.1910
(Ian
Paterson)		  
4   2C-D "TRANSVAAL"   30 mm
Larger Transvaal		 12.08.1912
(Putzel)		    
5   1C "Blank"
Visser		 27 mm

Skeleton		 1913
(Visser)		    
6   2C-D "S.AFRICA"   31 mm 08.05.1914
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "S.AFRICA"   28 mm
(Putzel)		    
8   1C "TRANSVAAL"
Visser		   04.01.1915
(Visser)		    
9   2C "Blank"   28 mm
SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 05.05.1916
(Putzel)		    
10   2C-D "Blank" 31 mm
Small lettering		 08.07.1916
(Aab)		 13.04.1918
(Aab)		  
11   2C-D "Blank"   28 mm
(Putzel)		    
12   2C-D "Blank"   30 mm
(Putzel)		    
13   1C "PM"   Skeleton 23.09.1922
(Visser)		    
14   1C "1030"
Visser		 Skeleton
The 1030 seams to
be a time code		 04.02.1927
(Visser)		    
15   2C-D "Blank" 34 mm 05.02.1929
(Aab)		 12.07.1933
(Putzel)		  
16   2C-D "Blank"
Visser		 30 mm ??.08.1934
(Visser)		    
17   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 19.06.1930
(Putzel)		    
18   1C "Blank"   Skeleton ??.01.1934
(Putzel)		    
19   2C-D "Blank"   29 mm
Roman month		 15.07.1935
(Putzel)		    
20   2C "Blank" 26 mm 21.08.1931
(Putzel)		 ??.03.1934
(Aab)		  
21   2C "Blank"
Visser		 28 mm 03.10.1936
(Visser)		    
22   2C "Blank"   26 mm
Roman month		 16.11.1959
(Putzel)		    
23   2C "4"   Index 4 10.03.1961
(Putzel)		    
24   2C "N.E./N.B."     25.05.1954
(Putzel)		    
25   PARCEL  
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

POTCHEFSTROOM KAMP/CAMP
07.09.1923 to 26.10.1923
16.04.1929 to 30.04.1929
03.07.1940 to Republic
Area: Potchefstroom
1   2C "Blank" Larger lettering 23.08.1940
(Aab)		 26.08.1940
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"   Last seen
19.10.1962
(Putzel)		 08.05.1947
(Aab)		 Republic  
       
3   2C "CAMP / CAMP" Last seen
1970
(Putzel)		 04.02.1960
(Aab)		 Republic  

POTFONTEIN STATION
Union to Republic
Area: De Aar
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
10.06.1893
(Frescura)		 Union 27.08.1924
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"   Month in letters 195?
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"   Roman month 194?
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Roman month
Lettering narrower
than number 3		 08.04.1947
(Visser)		    

POTGIETERSHOOP
08.12.1924 to 01.03.1926
Renamed to Hanslaagte
Area: Lydenburg
NOT  RECORDED

POTGIETERSRUS(T)
Union to Republic
Area: Northern Transvaal
1   2C "TVL" First seen
30.12.1902
(Aab)		 Union 22.11.1912
(Aab)		  
2   2C "TRANSVAAL"     06.05.1912
(Putzel)		 10.07.1913
(Aab)		  
       
3   2C "Bars + blank"   1925
(Putzel)		 29.09.1925
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Bar"    
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "Blank"   24 mm

TVL
removed from number 1		 1930
(Visser)		    
6   2C "Blank" 27 mm
PO of name
level with date		 28.03.1934
(Aab)		 05.11.1935
(Aab)		  
7   1C "Blank"   15.01.1934
(Putzel)		 23.06.1934
(Aab)		  
8   2C "Blank"   25 mm
O of name level
with date		 03.03.1939
(Putzel)		    
9   2C "Blank"   25 mm
P of name level
with date		 02.01.1935
(Putzel)		    
10   2C "Blank"   25 mm
P of name above
date
Roman month		 26.11.194?
(Putzel)		    
11   2C "Blank"   26 mm
O of name level
with date		 26.11.1942
(Putzel)		    
12   2C "Blank"
Visser		 28 mm
P of name level
with date
T below date		 11.09.1945
(Visser)		    
13   2C "Blank"   28 mm
O of name level
with date		 15.09.1950
(Putzel)		    
14   2C "Blank" P of name level
with date
T level with date		 13.12.1950
(Aab)		    
15   PARCEL   Space between bars
and name larger
(Visser)
(Putzel)		  
16   PARCEL  
Visser		 Space between bars
and name smaller
(Visser)		    

POTGIETERSTRAAT PRETORIA
31.08.1942 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "1"
Chris VD Spuy
First copy seen in Union

Last seen
10.07.1963
(Putzel)		 17.06.1943
(Chris
VD Spuy)		 Republic  

POTSDAM
01.04.1913 to 01.11.1943
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"
Visser		   28.12.1922
(Visser)		    

POTTEBERG
Union to 05.09.1932
Area: Bredarsdorp
1   2C "Bars + cross"     06.09.1910
(Putzel)		 ??.05.1911
(Frescura)		  

POUPAN STATION
1953 to Republic
Renamed from Paauwpan
Area: ?
NOT  RECORDED

POWERSCOURT
01.07.1919 to Republic
Renamed from Beaumont
Area: Durban
1   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    

PRAIRIE
01.03.1912 to 01.02.1913
01.09.1914 to 23.05.1927
Area: Carolina
1   2C "?"
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

PREMIER CAMP
27.05.1940 to 13.09.1948
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Blank" 29 mm 18.06.1941
(Putzel)		 08.09.1943
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm 14.10.1941
(Aab)		 17.02.1947
(Aab)		  

PREMIER MINE
Union to 25.10.1936
Renamed Cullinan
Area: Pretoria
1   1C "TRANSVAAL" Relief postmark 19.01.1912
(Putzel)		 29.01.1912
(Putzel)		  
2   2C-D "S.AFRICA"     17.12.1912
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "TRANSVAAL"
27 mm		 12.11.1913
(Aab)		 17.01.1914
(Putzel)		  
4   2C-D "Bar"   25.06.1918
(Aab)		 16.06.1934
(Aab)		  
5   2C "TRANSVAAL" 25 mm 08.12.1920
(Putzel)		 16.10.1922
(Putzel)		  
6   2C "TRANSVAAL"   11.12.1912
(Aab)		 16.10.1922
(Putzel)		  
       

PRESAS
18.12.1950 to Republic
Renamed from Pretoria Station
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Cross"    26 mm

Last seen
09.07.1985
(Chris vd Spuy)

 30.10.1954
(Aab)		  Republic  

PRESCO COMPOUND
07.06.1943 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "PRETORIA"  
Visser		   25.08.1943
(Visser)		    

PRESENTSKRAAL
01.08.1913 to 04.09.1950
Area: Unknown
1   2C "PRETORIA"  
Visser		   27.06.1916
(Visser)		    

PRESIDENT STEYN
04.03.1957 to Republic
Area: Bloemfontein
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

PRESIDENT STREET
Union to 1930
Area: Germiston
1   2C "GERMISTON"   26 mm 05.02.1923
(Putzel)		 28.5.1923
(Aab)		  
       
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 27.04.1925
(Visser)		    

PRESTBURY
Union to 01.02.1918
12.01.1921 to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 31 mm 30.06.1945
(Visser)		    

PRETORIA
00.00.1910 to 00.00.1910
Area: ?
See separate listing

PRETORIA NON EUROPEAN
08.08.1932 to Republic
Renamed from Indo Native Office, Pretoria
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "PRETORIA"   Bi-lingual
30 mm
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "NIE-BLANKES
/NON-EROPEAN"		   Bi-lingual
PRETORIA at top
31 mm		 09.06.1958
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "18"   Index 18
PRETORIA (N-E)		 1946
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "19"   Index 19
PRETORIA NB / NE		 29.04.1957
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "20"   Index 20
PRETORIA NB / NE		 01.06.1954
(Putzel)		 07.11.1955
(Aab)		  
       
6   PARCEL  
Visser		   (Visser)    

PRETORIA NORTH (RAIL)
23.12.1913 to Republic
Renamed from Wonderboom Rail
Area: Pretoria
1 "RAIL" 2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		 SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 23.12.1913
(Visser)		    
1   1C "Blank" Skeleton 10.01.1921
(Aab)		 1932
(Visser)		  
2 "PRETORIA" 2C "NORTH-NOORD" 26 mm 08.06.1943
(Aab)		 06.07.1953
(Putzel)		  
3 "NORTH-NOORD" 2C "Blank" Last seen
08.12.1966
(Putzel)		 11.05.1954
(Aab)		 Republic  

PRETORIA STATION
Union to 30.01.1928
Area: Pretoria
1 "B.O." 2C-D "PRETORIA" 29 mm
First seen
22.06.1908
(Aab)		 Union ??.08.1912
(Putzel)		  
2 "B.O." 2C "PRETORIA"
Visser		 30 mm 10.02.1916
(Visser)		    
3 "B.O." 2C "?"
Visser		 34 mm 04.02.1924
(Visser)		    
4 "B.O." 2C-D "PRETORIA" 27 mm
Smaller letters		 14.06.1926
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  
5 "STATION" 2C "?"   25 mm
(Putzel)		    
6 "STA PO" 2C "1"
Visser		 29 mm
Index 1		 20.10.1940
(Visser)		 1947?
(Putzel)		  
7 "STA PO/PK" 2C "2"   35 mm
Index 2		   1947?
(Putzel)		  
8 "STATION" 2C "1"   25 mm
Index 1
(Putzel)		    

PRETORIA WES(T)
01.96.1914 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 12.05.1935
(Visser)		    
2   1C "Blank" Blank
New discovery		 1943
(Aab)		 1944
(Visser)		  
3   2C "Blank" 25 mm

Bi-lingual

 22.03.1939
(Putzel)		 12.06.1943
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Blank"
Visser		 25 mm

Bi-lingual

Last seen
1966
(Visser)

 1958
(Visser)		 Republic  

PRETORIUSKOP
08.07.1940 to Republic
Area: Kruger Park
1   2C "Blank" Last seen
11.09.1978
(Putzel)		 01.09.1939
(Aab)		 Republic  
       

PRETORIUSVLEI
01.03.1919 to 24.09.1951
Area: Postmasburg
1   2C "Bar" 33 mm 31.??.1943
(Aab)		 07.05.1946
(Visser)		  

PRIESKA
Union to Republic
Area: ?
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
09.10.1905
(Frescura)		 Union 23.06.1911
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "S.AFRICA"   12.08.1912
(Aab)		 1954
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 01.02.1923
(Aab)		 15.02.1928
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm
Thick bar		 10.04.1930
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
5   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 06.04.1936
(Visser)		    
6   2C "Bars + cross"   30 mm
Thin bar		 02.12.1936
(Putzel)		 1954
(Putzel)		  
7   2C "Blank"   26 mm 1956
(Putzel)		    

PRIMROSE
Union to Republic
Area: East Rand
1   2C "GERMISTON. TVL" Last seen
03.06.1971
(Putzel)		 05.09.1917
(Putzel)		 Republic  
2   2C "GERMISTON" Last seen
02.08.1978
(Putzel)		 10.07.1959
(Aab)		 Republic  

PRIMROSE HILL
19.01.1948 to Republic
Area: East Rand
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PRIMROSE RIDGE
26.07.1937 to Republic
Area: East Rand
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PRINCE ALBERT
Union to Republic
Area: ?
1   1C "Blank" With dot separator

First seen:
16.07.1882
(Frescura)		 Union 05.01.1920
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"   First seen:
23.04.1903
(Frescura)		 Union 1922
(Visser)		  
3   2C "S.AFRICA"   03.06.1913
(Aab)		 20.06.1933
(Aab)		  
4   1C "Blank" Skeleton 14.04.1936
(Putzel)		 29.09.1937
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank" 26 mm 07.06.1933
(Aab)		 17.03.1943
(Putzel)		  

PRINCE ALBERT ROAD
Union to Republic
Area: Prince Albert
1   2C "Bars + cross"   Short bars

First seen:
03.04.1907
(Frescura)		 Union 12.01.1911
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"   07.06.1923
(Aab)		 04.07.1935
(Aab)		  
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 31.07.1939
(Putzel)		    

PRINCE ALFRED HAMLET
Union to Republic
Area: Ceres
1   1C "HAMLET" Name top and bottom

First seen:
21.11.1900
(Frescura)		 Union 18.09.1912
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   25.06.1932
(Putzel)		 28.03.1951
(Aab)		  

PRINCES PARK
26.12.1949 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Blank" Last seen
1963
(Putzel)		 31.12.1957
(Aab)		 Republic  
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
(Putzel)		    

PRINCES STREET
1936 to 1958
Area: Port Elizabeth
1   2C "PORT ELIZABETH"   25 mm
PRINCES ST		 14.07.1947
(Putzel)		 23.01.1949
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "PORT ELIZABETH"   30 mm 17.02.1947
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"   Skeleton 1951
(Visser)		    
4   2C "PORT ELIZABETH"   25 mm
PRINCES STR		 06.10.1956
(Putzel)		    
5   PARCEL  
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

PRINSHOF
24.09.1928 to 27.06.1960
Renamed from Fontyn
Area: Sutherland
1   2C "Blank" New discovery 25.01.1933
(Aab)		 20.10.1940
(Visser)		  

PRINSLOO'S HOOP
19.03.1923 to 22.07.1929
Area: Lichtenburg
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   01.05.1923
(Visser)		    

PRINSRIVIER
1932 to 1936
Area: Ladismith, Cape
NOT  RECORDED