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Post Offices STIJLDRIFT to STRELNA

STIJLDRIFT
Union to 01.05.1915
Area: Harrismith
NOT  RECORDED
ORC postmark known

STIKLAND
Union to 01.06.1910 (1 day in union)
01.01.1914 to 17.08.1953
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Bars + cross"   SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
(Putzel)		    

STILBAAI (STIL BAY)
01.01.1911 to 01.04.1913
13.03.1921 to 01.04.1953
Renamed to Stilbaai Wes
Area: Riversdale
1   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1939
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank?"   29 mm
on small
war stamp		 194?
(Putzel)		    

STILBAAI-OOS
01.04.1953 to Republic
Renamed from Stilbaaistrand
Area: Riversdale
1   2C "Blank"   30 mm 01.04.1953
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Relief type 3 14.07.1959
(Visser)		    

STILBAAISTRAND
12.12.1928 to 20.04.1953
Renamed to Stilbaai-Oos
Area: Riversdale
1   2C "Blank" 25 mm 16.01.1946
(Aab)		 23.09.1958
(Putzel)		  

STILBAAI-WES
20.04.1953 to Republic
Renamed from Stilbaai
Area: Riversdale
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Relief type 3 22.07.1959
(Visser)		    

STILCOM
18.06.1956 to Republic
Area: Stilfontein
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

STILFONTEIN
07.06.1954 to Republic
Area:  Between Kleksdorp and Potchefstroom
1   2C "Blank"   30 mm
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank"   26 mm 30.12.1957
(Putzel)		    

STILLEWONING
Union to 01.08.1910
01.07.1911 to 01.09.1915
Area: Kroonstad
NOT  RECORDED
ORC postmark known

STILWATER RAIL
20.02.1927 to 13.03.1933
06.07.1936 to Republic
Area: Renamed from Wensgevonden Rail
1   2C "Blank"   29 mm
(Putzel)		    

STIRTONVILLE
06.05.1929 to 1957
1959?  to Republic
Renamed from Boksburtg Location
Area: East Rand
1   2C "Blank"   29 mm 1957
(Putzel)		    

STOCKDALE
14.03.1921 to 19.04.1926
Area: Bultfontein
NOT  RECORDED

STOCK EXCHANGE
Union? to 01.02.1960
Area: Vereeniging
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG" Dots on sides 05.02.1912
(Aab)		 24.02.1913
(Putzel)		  
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG" No dots on sides 10.12.1920
(Aab)		    

STOCKPOORT
01.07.1946 to 12.03.1956
Area: Vaalwater
NOT  RECORDED

STOFBERG-GEDENKSKOOL
16.11.1936 to 01.02.1960
Area: Vereeniging
1   2C "Blank"   30 mm 19.08.1937
(Putzel)		    
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 19.05.1948
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"   25 mm 1955
(Putzel)		    

STOFFBERG
Union to 11.09.1914
1916 to Republic
Area: Belfast
1   2C "Bar"   29 mm 28.01.1936
(Putzel)		    
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
(Putzel)		    

STOFKRAAL
01.08.1919 to 26.05.1958
Area: Calvinia
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		 26 mm
Thin bars		 31.07.1925
(Visser)		 21.10.1936
(Visser)		  

STOFVLEI
02.08.1926 to 1960
Area: West Coast
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm
(Putzel)		    

STOLSVLAKTE
Union to 1920
Area: Oudtshoorn
(1)   2C "Bars + cross"   First seen
27.05.1910		      

STOMPNEUSBAAI
07.12.1953 to Republic
Area: West Coast
1   2C "Blank" 27 mm 28.11.1958
(Aab)		    

STONEDRIFT
01.08.1911 to 01.11.1914
Renamed from Klipdrift (OFS)
Area: Bloemfontein
NOT  RECORDED

STONEWALL
Union to 01.08.1911
Area: Boshof
NOT  RECORDED
ORC postmark recorded

STONYRIDGE
25.08.1952 to 16.09.1957
Area: Transkei
NOT  RECORDED

STORMBERG (JUNCTION)
Union to Republic
Area: Molteno
1 "JUNCTION" 2C "S.AFRICA" 28 mm
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
2 "JUNCTION" 2C "Blank"   28 mm
(Putzel)		    
3 "JUNCTION" 1C "1939"
Visser		 Skeleton 16.06.1939
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Blank" 29 mm
Last seen

(Putzel)		 01.07.1946
(Putzel)		 Republic  

STORMS RIVER
Union to Republic
Area: Humansdorp
1   2C "S.AFRICA"     1923
(Putzel)		    

STORMSVLEI
Union to Republic
Area: Caledon
1   2C "Bars + cross"   22.04.1922
(Putzel)		 23.05.1934
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton 08.11.1935
(Aab)		    
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 12.07.1937
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Blank" 26 mm 31.10.1940
(Aab)		 13.09.1949
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank"   30 mm
(Putzel)		    

STRAATSDRIF(T)
1916 to Republic
Area: Zeerust
1   2C "Blank"   30 mm 1923
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm 04.09.1942
(Aab)		 15.01.1957
(Putzel)		  

STRAND
01.03.1919 to Republic
Renamed from Somerset Strand
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Bars + cross" 30 mm
Wide D		 08.06.1925
(Aab)		 04.07.1935
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"   30 mm
Narrow D
(Putzel)		    
3   1C "Blank" Skeleton

New discovery

 10.07.1930
(Aab)		    
4   2C "Bars + cross" 27 mm
Shorter bar		 14.08.1932
(Putzel)		 14.10.1936
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Bars + cross" 29 mm
Bars up to STRAND		 11.04.1934
(Aab)		 1941
(Putzel)		  
6   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1939
(Visser)		    
7   2C "Cross" 27 mm
Square cross		 12.05.1937
(Aab)		 31.12.1937
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Cross" 27 mm
Wide cross		 25.11.941
(Aab)		 01.12.1949
(Putzel)		  
9   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 23.12.1959
(Visser)		    

STRANDFONTEIN
Union to 1943
Area: West Coast
1   1C "Blank"   First seen
 10.04.1906
(Frescura)		 Union 1943
(Putzel)		  

STRANDSKLOOF
15.12.1919 to Republic
Area: Hermanus
1   1C "Bar"     04.08.1944
(Putzel)		    

STRATHCONA (RAIL)
27.04.1925 to 08.05.1958
Area: Dundee
1 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"  
(Aab)		 1949
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		   195?
(Visser)		    

STRATHMORE
1916 to 04.10.1954
Area: Postmasburg
1   2C "Blank" 25 mm 02.01.1933
(Putzel)		 13.07.1942
(Putzel)		  

STRATHYRE
01.05.1913 to 17.05.1926
Renamed to Baanbreeker Rail
Area: Bethal
1   2C "S.AFRICA"
Visser		   09.03.1915
(Visser)		    

STRAUSSBURG
10.07.1922 to Republic
Area: Upington
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 05.07.1954
(Putzel)		    

STRAUSSPLAAS
30.03.1931 to 08.11.1954
Area: Calvinia
NOT  RECORDED

STRAWBERRY HILL
Union to 24.11.1952
Area: Swellendam
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 26 mm 14.03.1945
(Visser)		    

STREEPFONTEIN
01.12.1913 to 30.06.1958
Area: Volksrust
1   2C "?"
Visser		 30 mm 1932
(Visser)		    

STRELNA
19.08.1929 to 04.08.1930
Area: ?
NOT  RECORDED