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Post Offices PRIORS to PYRAMID

PRIORS (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Bethulie

1   2C "R.O." 26 mm 18.04.1913
(Putzel)
30.06.1914
(Aab)
 
2 "RAIL" 2C "Blank" 26 mm 1932
(Putzel)
   
3 "?" 1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton ??.04.1947
(Visser)
   

PROCLAMATIEDRIFT (PROCLOMATION DRIFT)
01.10.1910 to 01.09.1918
Area: Kroonstad

1   BONC "128" Allocated October 1910      

PROKLAMASIEHEUWEL
27.04.1959 to Republic
Area: Pretoria

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

PROSPECT HILL
04.07.1921 to 04.05.1951
Area: West Coast

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
  03.07.1923
(Visser)
   

PROSPECT TOWNSHIP
01.12.1912 to 21.03.1938
Renamed to City Deep
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "S.AFRICA"     23.12.1915
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "JOHANNESBURG"
Putzel
  25.08.1933
(Putzel)
   

PROTEM (RAIL)
01.11.1915 to Republic
Area: Bredarsdorp

1   2C "Blank"   02.06.1921
(Aab)
24.02.1946
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Blank"   RAIL removed 20.08.1952
(Putzel)
   

PROTOS
08.03.1926 to 22.08.1938
Area: Pretoria

1   2C "Blank"
Putzel
 
(Putzel)
   

PRUDHOE
Union to Republic
Area: Peddie

1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
  ??.07.1915
(Visser)
   
1   2C "Bars + cross"   13.05.1925
(Putzel)
194?
(Aab)
 

PUDIMOE (RAIL)
01.01.1916 to Republic
Area: Taungs

1 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"     1917
(Visser)
28.05.1934
(Putzel)
 
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 195?
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross"     12.08.1955
(Putzel)
   

PUMALANGA
12.12.1949 to 23.02.1953
Area: De Aar

1   2C "Blank" New discovery 19.03.1952
(Aab)
   

PUNTANS HILL
13.06.1921 to 16.01.1922
Area: Durban

NOT  RECORDED

PUNZI
1913 to 01.09.1916
Area: Port Shepstone

1   2C "S.AFRICA"
Visser
29 mm ??.08.1913
(Visser)
1916
(Visser)
 

PUTFONTEIN - Cape -
01.08.1911 to 31.01.1921
Area: Aberdeen

NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmark exists from previous PO closed 1904

PUTFONTEIN - Transvaal -
01.10.1923 to Republic
Area: East Rand

1   2C "Blank"   25 mm
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm 17.10.1950
(Aab)

(Putzel)
 

PUTZONDERWATER (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Prieska

1   1C "Blank"   First seen:
27
.11.1908
(Frescura)
Union 18.07.1919
(Frescura)
 
       
2   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 17.12.1935
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Blank" 27 mm 10.08.1923
(Putzel)
26.04.1948
(Aab)
 
4   2C "Blank"
Visser
28 mm 12.01.1956
(Visser)
   

PUTTERSKRAAL
05.11.1928 to 19.01.1931
Area: Queenstown

NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmark exists from previous PO closed 1903

PYPKLIP
30.09.1960 to 02.01.1961
Area: Lichtenburg

NOT  RECORDED

PYLKOP
29.10.1923 to 20.08.1924
29.06.1925 to 26.07.1937
Area: ?

NOT  RECORDED

PYRAMID
Union to Republic
Area: Pretoria

1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen
31.01.1908
(Johan Bezuidenhout)
Union 06.10.1943
(Aab)