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UPINGTON
Union to Republic
Area: Lower Orange River
1   SQC "CGH" First seen:
26.09.1899
(Aab)		 Union 28.03.1913
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
29.09.1906
(Aab)		 Union 10.03.1927
(Frescura)		  
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 191?
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Blank" 31 mm 18.09.1915
(Aab)		 17.03.1924
(Putzel)		  
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1926
(Visser)		    
6   2C "Bar" 31 mm 28.09.1928
(Aab)		 21.12.1931
(Putzel)		  
7   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 27.10.1930
(Visser)		    
8   2C "Blank" 30 mm ??.05.1934
(Putzel)		 01.06.1935
(Aab)		  
9   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 06.06.1935
(Visser)		    
10   2C "Blank" 29 mm
Smaller lettering		 07.08.1942
(Putzel)		 11.09.1944
(Aab)		  
11   2C "Blank" 26 mm
11 to 1 oçlock		 28.11.1939
(Putzel)		 29.08.1943
(Aab)		  
12   2C "Blank" 26 mm 26.10.1948
(Aab)		 21.02.1950
(Putzel)		  
13   2C "Blank"   27 mm
10 to 2 oçlock
(Putzel)		    
14   2C "2"   Index 2 25.02.1953
(Putzel)		    
15   2C "5" Index 5
not recoreded by Putzel		 16.03.1954
(Aab)		    
16   2C "7" Index 7 02.08.1956
(Putzel)		    
17   2C "S.AFRICA
S.AFRIKA"		   Amount paid after year 08.01.1952
(Putzel)		    

UPINGTON WEST
14.05.1923 to 21.08.1933
Area: Upington
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 07.07.1923
(Putzel)		    

UPLANDS
Union to 11.06.1956
Area: Knysna
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
31.08.1897
(Aab)		 Union 30.06.1940
(Frescura(		  

UPPER BLINKWATER
Union to Republic
Area: Balfour
1   1C "Dot"   First seen:
08.10.1902
(Frescura)		 Union 11.05.1921
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Bar"   25 mm 1921
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"
Visser		 27 mm 1937?
(Visser)		 1959
(Visser)		  

UPPER ENSELENI
30.05.1921 to 1952
Renamed from Ntambanano
Renamed to Upper Nseleni
Area: Zululand
1   2C "?"
Visser		   19.09.1921
(Visser)		    

UPPER GLENWOOD
05.10.1923 to 07.03.1927
Area: Durban
NOT  RECORDED

UPPER KLOOF STREET
1912 to 01.10.1914
Area: Cape Town
NOT  RECORDED
CGH postmark known

UPPER KOUGA
01.04.1915 to 1952
Renamed to Bo-Kouga
Area: Humansdorp
1         Part cancel seen
by Putzel
(Putzel)		    

UPPER LANGVERWACHT
1915 to 1952
Renamed to Bo-Langverwag
Area: Montagu
1   2C "Blank"   1922
(Visser)		    

UPPER NONOTI
27.02.1922 to 14.07.1924
Area: Stanger
NOT  RECORDED

UPPER NSELENI
1952 to Republic
Renamed from Upper Enseleni
Area: Zululand
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

UPPER PAARL
Union to 01.11.1912
Renamed to Zuider Paarl
Area: Winelands
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
 08.10.1902
(Frescura)		 Union 24.07.1912
(Frescura)		  

UPPER TONGAAT
Union to Republic
Area: Tongaat
1   2C "NATAL" No markings on sides

First seen:
02.10.1893
(Aab)		 Union 21.06.1910
(Aab)		  
2   2C "NATAL"   Blocks on sides 1936
(Putzel)		    

UPPER TSITSANA
15.01.1951 to Republic
Area: Transkei
NOT  RECORDED

UPPER TYUME
05.06.1922 to Republic
Area: Alice
1   2C "Blank"     1947
(Putzel)		    

UPPER UMHLATUZI
Union to 1919
1924 to 01.05.1944
Renamed to Owens Cutting
Area: Zulluland
1   2C "Blank"     1937
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
       

UPPER UMVOTI
01.07.1919 to 12.10.1954
Renamed from Misgunst
Area: Greytown
1   2C "Bar"
Visser		   11.06.1949
(Visser)		    

UPPER WYNBERG
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   1C "Blank" First seen
23.12.1903
(Frescura)		 Union 04.09.1912
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton 11.03.1937
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank" 30 mm
8 to 4 o''clock		 23.12.1944
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
4   1C "1954" Seleton 14.10.1954
(Putzel)		 14.10.1954
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank"   30 mm
9 to 3 o''clock		 21.02.1955
(Putzel)		    

UPPER ZWART KEI
Union to 1919
Area: Queenstown
1   1C "Dot"
http://www.michael-hamilton.com 		"Z" reversed
First seen:
1891
(Frescura)
 		 Union 16.03.1913
(Frescura)		  

UPSAL
Union to 28.01.1935
Area: Somerset East
1   1C? "Blank"
Visser		   09.06.1925
(Visser)		    

URIONSKRAAL
12.11.1945 to Republic
Area: West Coast
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm
(Putzel)		    

USUTU
06.03.1944 to Republic
Renamed from Youngusutu
Area: Potgietersrus
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

UTRECHT
Union to Republic
1   2C "S.AFRICA"    
(Putzel)		    
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		   29.03.1916
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Bars + cross" 32 mm 31.10.1917
(Putzel)		 01.02.1922
(Aab)		  
4   2C-D "Bars + cross"   04.04.1923
(Aab)		    
5   2C "Blank?"
Visser		 Skeleton ??.06.1933
(Visser)		    
6   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm
Thick bars		 ??.03.1939
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm
Thin bars		 04.12.1941
(Putzel)		    

UVONGO BEACH
04.08.1924 to Republic
Area: Natal South Coast
1   2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm
Short bars
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Short bars		 05.10.1943
(Putzel)		 15.05.1949
(Chris vd Spuy)		  

UYSEDOORNS
24.09.1928 to 30.06.1930
Area: Belfast
NOT  RECORDED