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Post Offices SNAKEFIELD to SORGVLIET

SNAKEFIELD
23.03.1953 to Republic
Area: Transkei

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

SNEECHDALE
21.06.1954 to 22.10.1956
Renamed to Veganview
Area: East Rand

NOT  RECORDED

SNEEUKRAAL
1942 to Republic
Area: Beaufort West

NOT  RECORDED

SNEEZEWOOD
Union to 21.04.1930
15.11.1948 to Republic
Area: Transkei

1   2C "Blank"     15.03.1952
(Putzel)
   

SNELL PARADE
02.11.1936 to 03.06.1946
1949 to 15.06.1953
17.10.1955 to Republic
Area: Durban

1   2C "DURBAN"
Visser
  ??.06.1943
(Visser)
   

SNYBERG
04.10.1926 to Republic
Area: Uniondale

1   2C "Bars + cross"     30.09.1950
(Putzel)
   

SNYMANSVLEI
01.08.1917 to Republic
Area: Rustenburg

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

SOBANTU
22.11.1948 to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg

1   2C "Bars + cross" Last seen
08
.09.1978
(Putzel)
29.07.1954
(Aab)
Republic  

SODIUM (RAIL)
01.11.1917 to Republic
Area: Britstown

1   2C "Bars + cross"     1935
(Putzel)
28.09.1942
(Putzel)
 

SOEBATSFONTEIN
01.01.1916 to Republic
Area: Namaqualand

1   2C "Blank"     30.11.1951
(Putzel)
   

SOEKMEKAAR
1953 to Republic

1   2C "Blank"   31 mm 03.05.1955
(Putzel)
   
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm ??.11.1956
(Putzel)
   

SOETAP
Union to 01.06.1911
Renamed to Kakamas
Area: Upington

NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmark known

SOETDORINGS
1953 to Republic
Area: Pietersburg

1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 01.12.1954
(Putzel)
   

SOETVELDE
1953 to Republic
Area: Middelbueg, Transvaal

1   2C "Blank" 30 mm

Last seen
20
.03.1973
(Putzel)
??.08.1959
(Aab)
Republic  

SOLOMONDALE (STATION)
01.09.1911 to 1939
12.08.1941 to 02.11.1942
14.08.1944 to Republic
Area: Pietersburg

1   2C "Bar" 33 mm 23.12.1929
(Aab)
??.02.1930
(Putzel)
 

SOMERSET EAST
Union to Republic

1   1C "Blank" Name 8 to 4 o'clock
Last seen:

28
.06.1886

(Aab)
Union 28.05.1912
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross"
 
 

Type 1
2 types recorded

First seen:
20.02.1904
(Frescura)

Union 15.01.1919
(Frescura)
 
3   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser

Type 2
2 types recorded

22.04.1911
(Visser)
11913
(Visser)
 
4   2C "Blank"   26 mm 1924
(Putzel)
1929
(Visser)
 
5   2C "Blank"   26 mm 1930
(Putzel)
   
6   2C "S.AFRICA" 26 mm 24.08.1928
(Aab)
24.12.1932
(Putzel)
 
7   2C "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
01.07.1921
(Aab)
24.01.1933
(Aab)
 
8   2C "Bar" Heavy bar
(Visser)
05.09.1937
(Aab)
 
9 "/OOS" 2C "Blank" 30 mm
Wide M
7 to 5 o'clock
??.04.1938
(Aab)

(Putzel)
 
10 "/OOS" 2C "Blank"   30 mm
Narrow M
7 to 5 o'clock

(Putzel)
   
11 "/OOS" 2C "Blank"
Chris
vd Spuy
30 mm
Wide M
8 to 4 o'clock
??.04.1943
(Putzel)
24.08.1946
(Chris
vd Spuy)
 
12   2C "SOMERSET OOS" 29 mm
No dash before OOS
Dashes between names
09.02.1934
(Aab)
30.07.1934
(Putzel)
 
13   2C "SOMERSET - OOS" 29 mm
Small dash before OOS
17.07.1939
(Putzel)
11.08.1944
(Aab)
 
14   2C "SOMERSET ---- OOS" 29 mm
Long dash before OOS
24.11.1946
(Ch vd Spuy)
27.08.1952
(Aab)
 
15   2C "Blank"   31.05.1960
(Aab)
Republic)  

SOMERSET EAST RAIL
1910 to 1911

NOT  RECORDED

SOMERSET ROAD
22.12.1924 to Republic
Area: Cape Town

1   2C "CAPE TOWN"     1935
(Putzel)
   

SOMERSET STRAND
Union to 01.03.1919
Renamed Strand
Area: Stellenbosch

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
02
.01.1892
(Frescura)
Union 28.07.1911
(Frescura)
 
2   SQC "CGH" First seen:
??
.11.1898
(Putzel)
Union 03.03.1911
(Frescura)
 
3   1C "Blank"   23 mm 17.10.1911
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "Bars + cross"   13.12.1911
(Aab)

(Putzel)
 
5   2C "Blank"   04.12.1918
(Aab)

(Putzel)
 

SOMERSET WEST
Union to Republic

1   1C "WEST" First seen:
17
.12.1886
(Aab)
Union 05.10.1915
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross"   01.04.1912
(Aab)
1923
(Aab)
 
3   1C "Blank"   1920
(Putzel)
04.07.1924
(Aab)
 
4   2C "Blank"
Visser
26 mm 2?.06.1919
(
Visser)
   
5   2C "Blank" 28 mm
OM level with date
28.03.1925
(Putzel)
06.05.1941
(Aab)
 
6   2C "Blank" 29 mm
SO level with date
01.02.1932
(Visser)
   
7 "-WES" 2C "Blank" 29 mm
7 to 5 o'clock
08.02.1934
(Aab)
13.04.1948
(Putzel)
 
8 "/WEST" 2C "Blank"
Visser
26 mm
7:30 to 5:30 o'clock
WES first
17.10.1949
(Visser)
   
9   1C "Blank" Skeleton 30.05.1949
(Putzel)
04.06.1949
(Aab)
 
10 "/WES" 2C "Blank"   28 mm
9 to 3 o'clock
22.05.195?
(Putzel)
   
11   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 1955?
(Visser)
   
12   PARCEL    
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 

SOMERSET WEST RAIL
1913 to 1914

NOT  RECORDED

SOMKELE (RAIL)
Union to Before 1930
Area: Durban

1   2C "NATAL" Crosses on sides

First seen:
03.12.1907
Union 02.05.1911
(Aab)
 
2   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton ??.08.1914?
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date

(Putzel)
22.07.1922
(Aab)
 

SOMTSUE ROAD (SOMTSEU ROAD)
1940 to Republic
Area: Durban

1   2C "(DURBAN)"   26 mm 06.07.1957
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank"   28 mm 14.07.1959
(Putzel)
   

SONDAGSLOOP
1953 to Republic
Renamed fro Zondagsloop
Area: Vaalwater

1   2C "Blank"   29 mm
(Putzel)
   

SONDER
1953 to 22.06.1959
Renamed from Zonder
Area: Vrede

NOT  RECORDED

SONNEKWA
24.09.1934 to 16.03.1959
Area: Namaqualand

NOT  RECORDED

SONOP
31.01.1927 to Republic
Area: Brits

1   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm 1931
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 

SONSKYN
1925 to Republic
Area: Aliwal North

1   2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm 22.08.1955
(Putzel)
   

SONSTRAAL
01.03.1926 to Republic
Area: Upington

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
29 mm 19.09.1932
(Visser)
   

SOPHIATOWN
01.06.1912 to 01.05.1915
25.10.1926 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "Blank" 25 mm 16.02.1932
(Putzel)
18.10.1955
(Aab)
 
2   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   26 mm 22.12.1955
(Putzel)
12.07.1958
(Aab)
 
       

SOPPERSHOEK
19.10.1925 to 25.02.1929
Area: Douglas

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
26 mm
(Visser)
   

SORGVLIET
03.01.1949 to 14.11.1960
Area: Ladismith, Cape

1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 23.12.1949
(Putzel)