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Post Offices SCHAAPFONTEIN to SCHWEIZER-RENEKE

SCHAAPFONTEIN
Union to 06.11.1922
14.01.1924 to 18.05.1931
Area: Pokwani

(1)   2C "Bars + cross"
Putzel
Date illegible
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
  1927
(Visser)
   

SCHAAPHOK
Union to 01.07.1919
Area: Potgietersrust

1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   15.11.1910
(Putzel)
15.08.1911
(Aab)
 

SCHAGEN
28.07.1924 to Republic
Area: Nelspruit

1   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm
(Putzel)
07.03.193?
(Aab)
 
2   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 28.11.1946
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross"   29 mm 17.01.1952
(Putzel)
   

SCHALKKLIPDRIFT
01.07.1915 to 12.05.1952
Area: Fraserburg

1   2C "Blank" 31 mm
(Putzel)
19.12.193?
(Aab)
 

SCHAPENSRUST
Union to 01.08.1912
05.02.1926 to Republic
Area: East Rand

1   2C "?"
Visser
  14.09.1911
(Visser)
   
1   2C "Blank"   29.05.1944
(Putzel)
10.08.195?
(Aab)
 

SCHAUDERVILLE
01.11.1948 to Republic
Area: Port Elizabeth

1   1C "PO  PK"   Skeleton 25.10.1948
(Putzel)
   

SCHEEPERSNEK (RAIL)
January 1912 to Republic
Area: Vryheid

1   2C "Bars + cross"   1912
(Putzel)
07.09.1914
(Aab)
 
2   2C "RAIL"     16.07.1954
(Putzel)
1961
(Visser)
 

SCHEEPERSRUS(T)
24.01.1927 to Republic
Area: Montagu

1   2C "Blank"
Putzel
 
(Putzel)
   

SCHEERPOORT
Union to 10.12.1934
Renamed to Skeerpoort
Area: Pretoria

1   2C "Asterisk"
 
  1919
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank"
 
  14.07.1930
(Putzel)
1931
(Putzel)
 

SCHEFFERSPOS
25.11.1935 to 02.11.1942
25.06.1945 to 02.06.1958
09.03.1959 to Republic
Area: Ventersdorp

1   2C "Blank"
 
  02.08.1949
(Putzel)
   

SCHIETONTEIN
Union to 08.09.1930
Area: Laingsburg

1   1C? "Blank"
 
27 mm
part postmark seen

(Visser)
   

SCHILDPADFONTEIN
Union to 17.03.1952
Renamed to Skilpadfontein
Area: Warmbaths

1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   29.07.1910
(Aab)
13.05.1941
(Aab)
 

SCHILDSKLOOF
13.10.1924 to 08.06.1942
Area: Caledon

1   2C "Blank"
 
26 mm 1931
(Putzel)
   

SCHMIDTSBERG
01.10.1910 to 01.07.1911
Renamed from Baviaanskrans
Renamed to Monteville
Area: Kimberley

NOT  RECORDED

SCHMIDTSDRIF(T)
Union to Republic
(A CGH PO existed)
Area: Kimberley

1   1C "DRIFT"
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Name top and bottom

First seen:
02.08.1889
(Frescura)
Union 16.05.1913
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
16.12.1930
(Putzel)
20.10.1948
(Aab)
 
3   2C "Blank"   195?
(Aab)
   

SCHOEMANSDAL
06.07.1948 to 08.07.1948
Temporary office
Area: ?

1   1C "21"
Visser
Skeleton

Some have AM
at bottom
06.07.1948
(Putzel)
07.07.1948
(Visser)
 

SCHOEMANSHOEK
Union to Republic
Area: Oudtshoorn

1   1C "Blank" First seen
??
.11.1892
(Aab)
Union 11.07.1940
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"
 
26 mm 1922
(Aab)
??.02.1952
(Putzel)
 
       

SCHOEMANSKLOOF
Union to Republic
(Closed 27.11.1961)
Area: Lydenburg

1   2C "TRANSVAAL"    
(Putzel)
   

SCHOENMAKERSKOP
22.09.1924 to 02.12.1929
Area: Port Elizabeth

NOT  RECORDED

SCHOLTZFONTEIN
01.11.1915 to Republic
Area: Kimberley

1   2C "Blank"   25 mm
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank"   31 mm
(Putzel)
   

SCHOOLPLAATS
Union to 01.07.1912
Renamed to Buckingham
Area: Welverdiend

NOT  RECORDED

SCHOOMBIE (SCHOOMBEE) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Middelburg, Cape

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
01
.09.1892
(Frescura)
Union 15.06.1913
(Frescura)
 
       
2   2C "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
21.12.1914
(Aab)
07.10.1941
(Putzel)
 
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 20.09.1954
(Putzel)
   

SCHOONGEZICHT
Union to 01.03.1915
Area: Middelburg, Cape

NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmarks known

SCHOONOORD
Union to 02.03.1936
Renamed to Uitskot
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal

1   2C "TVL"     ??.04.1931
(Putzel)
   
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
(Putzel)
   

SCHOONUITZICHT
01.10.1919 to April 1923
Area: Louis Trichardt

1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
  ??.04.1923
(Visser)
   

SCHOONWATER
01.08.1914 to 01.07.1918
Area: Machadodorp

NOT  RECORDED

SCHORPIONSDRIFT
01.10.1915 to 01.11.1915
Renamed to Scorpionsdrift
Area: Carnarvon

NOT  RECORDED

SCHRODA
01.12.1919 to 22.06.1931
Area: Messina

1   2C "TVL"    
(Putzel)
   

SCHROEDERS (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Dalton

1   2C "NATAL" First seen:
15.10.1904
(Aab)

Violet
31.06.1912
(Aab)
Union ??.??.1928
(Putzel)
 
2 "/STA" 2C "Blank" 29 mm 25.05.1935
(Aab)

(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Blank" Last seen
17.08.1978
(Putzel)
11.10.1958
(Aab)
Republic  

SCHUINSDRIFT
1911 to 1952
Renamed to Skuinsdrif
(Using old name in 1956)
Area: Zeerust

1   2C "TRANSVAAL" 28 mm 11.08.1913
(Aab)
30.08.1956
(Aab)
 

SCHUSS
16.04.1951 to Republic
Area: Madibogo

NOT  RECORDED

SCHUTTESDRAAI
Union to 14.02.1921
Area: Ficksburg

1   2C "TVL" ORC partly removed 09.09.1912
(Aab)
11.09.1919
(Aab)
 

SCHWEIZER-RENEKE
Union to Republic

1   2C "TRANSVAAL"
 
22.02.1913
(Aab)
10.09.1915
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm
9 to 3 o'clock
21.05.1928
(Aab)
25.08.1928
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Blank" 26 mm
8 to 4 o'clock
07.06.1931
(Aab)
08.11.1935
(Aab)
 
4   2C "Blank" 32 mm
8:30 to 2:30 o'clock

(Putzel)
??.04.1943
(Aab)
 
5   1C "Blank" Skeleton 1939
(Putzel)
   
6   2C "Blank"   26 mm
9 to 3 o'clock
25.09.1951
(Putzel)
   
7   2C "Blank"   25 mm
9 to 3 o'clock
Different S
16.09.1957
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "Blank" 29 mm
8:30 to 2:30 o'clock
03.04.1953
(Aab)
1957
(Putzel)
 
9   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
Misspelt SHWE
29.10.1958
(Putzel)
   
10   2C "Blank"
Visser
32 mm
8 to 4 o'clock
 
02.04.1960
(Visser)