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Post Offices VORENTOE to VYVERSUS

VORENTOE
06.08.1928 to Republic
Area: Brits
Postal agent

1   2C "Blank" 26 mm 16.02.1934
(Aab)
14.08.1943
(Aab)
 

VORSTERSHOOP
04.08.1952 to Republic
Area: Vryburg
Postal agent

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

VOSBURG
Union to Republic

Post office

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
20.04.1903
(Frescura)
Union 19.04.1922
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm 24.08.1925
(Aab)
01.04.1933
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Cross"   30 mm 01.08.1951
(Putzel)
   

VOSSMAN'S BEACON
01.04.1913 to 20.07.1953
Renamed to Warburton
Area: Breyton
Postal agent
Post office 1949

1   2C "Blank"   29 mm 13.08.1923
(Putzel)
   

VREDE
Union to Republic

Post office

1   2C "Blank"   ORC removed

New discovery
23.02.1911
(Aab)
   
       
2 "P.O." 2C "Blank" ORC removed 08.01.1911
(Putzel)
01.06.1911
(Aab)
 
3   2C "Bars + cross" 31 mm

Narrow bottom of R
Top of R wide
02.06.1923
(Aab)
18.10.1924
(Aab)
 
4   2C "Bars + cross" 30 mm

Wide bottom of R
Top of R narrow
24.12.1932
(Aab)
07.03.1936
(Putzel)
 
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1934
(Putzel)
   
6   2C "Bars + cross"   29 mm

Thin bars
15.08.1936
(Putzel)
   
7   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1937
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm

Thin bars
28.09.1941
(Aab)
27.05.1942
(Putzel)
 
9   2C "Cross" 30 mm

10 to 2 o'clock
wide cross
01.11.1946
(Aab)
29.05.1951
(Putzel)
 
10   2C "Cross"   29 mm

Open cross
20.04.1956
(Putzel)
   
11   2C "Bar"   Type 3 relief
Modern relief
Thin bars
14.03.1956
(Putzel)
   
12   PARCEL    
(Putzel)
   

VREDEDORP
Union to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
Post office

1   1C "BO" Skeleton

New discovery

03.04.1913
(Aab)
   
2 "B.O." 2C "TRANSVAAL"     1914
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date
11.04.1931
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   26 mm 11.06.1936
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   31 mm 21.03.1953
(Putzel)
   

VREDEFORT
Union to Republic

Post office

1   2C "Blank" ORC removed 18.09.1911
(Aab)
30.12.1913
(Aab)
 
2   1C "Blank"
Visser
  1920?
(Visser)
   
3   1C "Blank"
Visser
  1926?
(Visser)
   
4   2C "Blank"   S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date
1927
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "Blank" 25 mm 15.06.1931
(Putzel)
18.07.1941
(Aab)
 
6   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1935
(Visser)
   
7   2C "Bar" Thin bar 25.07.1939
(Aab)
16.04.1955
(Putzel)
 
8   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1960
(Visser)
   
9   2C "Blank"   30 mm 20.10.1960
(Putzel)
   

VREDENBURG
Union to Republic
Area: West Coast
Post office

1   BONC "141"   First seen:
14.03.1901
(Aab)
Union   Union
(Aab)
 
2   1C "Blank" First seen:
04.01.1884
(Frescura)
Union 19.09.1921
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Blank" 26 mm 04.12.1922
(Aab)
28.041931
(Aab)
 
4   1C "Blank" Skeleton 10.05.1949
(Aab)
25.05.1949
(Visser)
 
5   2C "Blank"   26 mm
Wider letters
     

VREDENDAL
01.12.1916 to Republic
CGH post office existed
Area: West Coast

1   2C "Blank" 26 mm
9:00 to 3:00 o"clock

(Putzel)
25.05.1928
(Aab)
 
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1931
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Blank" 26 mm
8:30 to 3:30 o"clock
31.01.1945
(Aab)
28.04.1950
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Blank" 29 mm
10 to 2 o"clock
1952
(Aab)
28.04.1958
(Putzel)
 

VREDERUS
1951 to 1955
Area: ?

NOT  RECORDED

VREYHEIDSKAVALKADE
25.03.1944 to 01.04.1944
Area: Cape town

1   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 25.03.1944
(Putzel)
   

VREYSRUS
25.10.1926 to Republic
Area: Pietersburg

1   2C "Blank"   27 mm
(Putzel)
   

VRIESPOORT
01.02.1918 to 19.12.1923
(CGH postal agent 1897 to 1900)
Area: Graaff-Reinet

NOT  RECORDED

VRIJHEID
Union to 28.02.1930
Renamed to Vryheid

1   2C-D "Asterisk" Wide J 07.06.1911
(Aab)
28.02.1930
(Putzel)
 
2   2C-D "Asterisk" Narrow J
looks more like a dot
??.10.1921
(Aab)
15.11.1926
(Putzel)
 

VROEGGEDEEL
18.08.1947 to 29.10.1951
Area: Postmasburg

1   2C "Blank"   27 mm 21.05.1948
(Putzel)
   

VROEGKOUD
1947 to 06.07.1959
Area: Lydenburg

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
26 mm 18.12.1959
(Visser)
   

VROUWENSPAN
01.09.1917 to 01.08.1929
Area: Upington

NOT  RECORDED

VRYBURG
Union to Republic

1   1C "BB" First seen:
17.04.1893
(Frescura)


Used in Br. Bech. before
Union 17.10.1913
(Frescura)
 
2   1C "CGH" Typeface: Tall rounded
First seen:
14.08.1897
(Frescura)
Union 27.07.1912
(Frescura)
 
3   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
28.05.1904
(Aab)
Union 20.09.1911
(Putzel)
 
4   1C "Blank"
Visser
  10.04.1912
(Visser)
   
5   2C "S.AFRICA"   29.09.1913
(Aab)
24.08.1922
(Putzel)
 
6   2C-D "Bars + cross"   31 mm
(Putzel)
   
7   2C "Bars + cross" 29 mm 07.10.1921
(Putzel)
27.01.1925
(Aab)
 
8   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm 01.05.1931
(Putzel)
04.05.1931
(Aab)
 
9   2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm
Smaller lettering than
number 8
1934
(Putzel)
   
10   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm
Medium bars
31.01.1931
(Putzel)
   
11   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm
Thin bars
16.04.1938
(Putzel)
26.07.194?
(Aab)
 
12   2C "Bars + cross" 30 mm
Thick bars
27.05.1937
(Aab)
12.03.1943
(Putzel)
 
13   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
ca. 1935

(Putzel)
   
14   2C "Bars + cross"   30 mm
Short bars

(Putzel)
   
15   2C "Bars + cross"   29 mm
Thin bars
Gap between bars
and cross
06.01.1955
(Putzel)
   
16   2C-D "Cross"   29 mm 1942
(Putzel)
   
17   2C-D "Bars + cross" 29 mm
Short thin bars
05.05.1948
(Putzel)
17.07.1958
(Aab)
 
18   2C "Cross"   26 mm 28.07.1950
(Putzel)
   
19   2C "Cross"   34 mm 03.12.1958
(Putzel)
   
20   PARCEL    
(Aab)
   

VRYBURG LOCATION
02.11.1942 to Republic

NOT  RECORDED

VRYBURG STATION
Union to 17.07.1922

1   1C "Dot" First seen:
12
.12.1891
(Putzel)
Union 04.07.1913
(Frescura)
 

VRYHEID
23.10.1910 to 06.06.1911
29.02.1930
to Republic
Also see Vrijheid

1   2C "NATAL" Bars on sides

First seen
23.12.1905
(Aab)
Union 23.10.1910
(Putzel)
 
2   2C-D "Bars + cross"   28 mm 09.02.1934
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm

Thin lines
Gap between
lines and cross

(Putzel)
07.01.1935
(Aab)
 
4   2C-D "Bars + cross" 28 mm

Thin lines
Shorter bars
15.09.1934
(Putzel)
12.05.1937
(Aab)
 
5   2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm 04.06.1949
(Putzel)
   
6   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm

Thin bars
17.11.1960
(Putzel)
   
7   2C "4"   Index 4 05.06.1959
(Putzel)
   
8   PARCEL    
(Aab)
   
9   PARCEL  
Visser
 
(Visser)
   
10   PARCEL  
Visser
 
(Visser)
   

VRYWILLIG
18.09.1939 to Republic
Area: Vryburg

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
  22.06.1943
(Visser)
   

VULINDELA
15.06.1950 to 11.02.1952
Area: Transkei

1   2C "Blank"     16.04.1951
(Putzel)
   

VUMINDABA
13.12.1956 to Republic
Area: Transkei

NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmark known

VYANDSVLEI
01.08.1914 to Republic
Area: Heilbron

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
13.05.1919
(Visser)
   

VYEBOOM (VYGEBOOM)
01.01.1912 to Republic
Area: Villiersdorp

1   2C "S.AFRICA"   VYGEBOOM 23.10.1929
(Putzel)
   

VYFHOEK
01.01.1912 to Republic
Area: Potchefstroom

1   2C "TRANSVAAL"     1915
(Putzel)
27.07.1923
(Putzel)
 

VYVERSRUS(T)
16.07.1923 to Republic
Area: Ladismith, Cape

1   2C "Blank"   Last seen
03.07.1973
(Putzel)
28.01.1952
(Putzel)
 Republic