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Post Offices WORCESTER to WYVEN

WORCESTER
Union to Republic
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen
30.03.1910
(Aab)		 Union 21.02.1912
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Skeleton"
  07.12.1912
(Visser)		 04.02.1913
(Visser)		  
3   2C "S.AFRICA"   16.12.1914
(Putzel)		 01.09.1924
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Bar" Solid bar

27 mm

 1919
(Putzel)		 09.10.1924(Aab)  
5   2C "Bar"   Solid bar

30 mm

 ??.01.1921
(Putzel)		 04.04.1922
(Aab)		  
       
6   2C "Blank" Different S
W wider middle leg		 1926
(Aab)		 1929
(Putzel)		  
7   2C "Blank" W short middle leg 30.06.1931
(Aab)		 08.04.1935
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Blank" Wide S
W narrow middle leg		 03.05.1939
(Aab)		 22.04.1941
(Aab)		  
9   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 1943
(Visser)		    
10   2C "Blank"   smaller lettering 1945
(Putzel)		    
11   2C "Blank"   29 mm 1952
(Putzel)		    
12   2C "Blank"
Visser		 26 mm 04.12.1953
(Visser)		 1961
(Visser)		  
13 "GBA/RLS" 2C "1"   29 mm 16.10.1957
(Putzel)		    
14   2C "PAID
SOUTH AFRICA"		   20.02.1952
(Putzel)		 05.09.1957
(Putzel)		  
15   PARCEL    
(Visser)		    
16   PARCEL    
(Visser)		    
17   PARCEL    
(Visser)		    

WORCESTER MINE
13.06.1921 to 17.10.1921
Renamed from Noordkaap
Reverts back to Noordkaap
Area: Barberton
NOT  RECORDED

WORCESTER STATION
Union to 27.02.1922
Area: Worcester
1   2C "Bars + cross"     03.06.1915
(Putzel)		    

WORCESTER TRAINING CAMP
06.03.1929 to 15.03.1929
Area: Worcester
NOT  RECORDED

WORTEL
01.08.1920 to 23.01.1922
Area: Namaqualand
NOT  RECORDED

WORTHING
16.03.1925 to 02.10.1928
Area: Pretoria
NOT  RECORDED

WOUDEND
04.02.1952 to Union
Area: Vaalwater
NOT  RECORDED

WOUDKOP
16.07.1934 to Union (closed 1965)
Area: ?
1   2C "Bars + cross"     1937
(Visser)		    

WOYENTHIN
1910 to 15.12.1947
28.08.1950 to 17.11.1958
Area: Heidelberg Transvaal
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   09.02.1911
(Aab)		 12.11.1919
(Putzel)		  
       
2   2C "Blank"     21.02.1946
(Putzel)		    

WUPPERT(H)AL
Union to Republic
Area: West Coast
1   1C "Blank" Name 9 to 3 o'clock

First seen:
12.08.1904
(Frescura)		 Union 10.09.1938
(Frescura)		  
       

WURASOORD (STATION)
1950 to Union
Area: Reddersburg
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   04.03.1950
(Visser)		    

WYCHWOOD
21.05.1951 to 20.08.1957
Area: Germiston
NOT  RECORDED

WYDERS RIVER
01.06.1919 to 06.09.1954
Renamed to Weyersrivier
Area: Riversdale
NOT  RECORDED

WYDGELEE
1952 to Union
renamed from Wydgelegen
Area: Bredarsdorp
NOT  RECORDED

WYDGELEGEN
21.09.1925 to 1952
Renamed to Wydgelee
Area: Bredarsdorp
1   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Visser 06.07.1925
(Visser)		    

WYEBANK (RAIL) (STATION)
01.01.1920 to Union
Area: Durban
1 "RAIL" 2C "Bar"   15.07.1925
(Visser)		 1937
(Visser)		  
2 "/STA" 2C "Blank"     ??.05.1949
(Putzel)		    

WYEDRIF
11.02.1929 to 20.05.1935
Area: Pretoria
NOT  RECORDED

WYFORD
 Union to Republic
Area: Ladysmith Natal
1   2C "NATAL"   Bars on sides

First seen
1908
(Visser)

 Union 1915
(Visser)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"     194?
(Visser)		    

WYNANDS RIVER
Union to Republic
Area: Oudtshoorn
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
03.04.1899
(Aab)		 Union 11.05.1914
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"     1932
(Putzel)		    

WYNBERG
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   1C "CGH" Shorter rounded typeface

First seen
 24.07.1894		 Union 02.01.1911
(Aab)		  
2 "CAPE" 2C "Bars + cross" Spelt Wynberg Cape

Dot separator
First seen
07.07.1904		 Union 16.05.1914
(Aab)		  
3 "CAPE" 2C "Bars + cross" Spelt Wynberg Cape

No dot separator
First seen
03.09.1908
(Frescura)		 Union 18.07.1911
(Frescura)		  
4 "CAPE" 2C "Bars + cross"   Spelt Wynberg Cape

26 mm

W below date		 01.10.1919
(Putzel)		    
5 "CAPE" 2C "Bars + cross"   Spelt Wynberg Cape

29 mm

W level with date		 26.01.1919
(Putzel)		    
6 "CAPE" 2C "Bars + cross"
coud be another postmak		 Spelt Wynberg Cape

29 mm

W level with date

Rounded C		 13.01.1912
(Putzel)		    
7 "CAPE" 2C "Bars + cross"   Spelt Wynberg Cape

28 mm

W below date		 06.10.1918
(Putzel)		    
8 "CAPE" 2C "Bars + cross"   Spelt Wynberg Cape

28 mm

W level with date

Thinner bars		 12.09.1911
(Putzel)		    
9 "CAPE" 2C "Bar" Spelt Wynberg Cape

Narrow Y

 04.05.1920
(Aab)		 29.11.1922
(Visser)		  
10 "CAPE" 2C "Bar"   Spelt Wynberg Cape 

Wide Y

 07.12.1925
(Putzel)		    
11 "CAPE" 2C "Blank" Spelt Wynberg Cape 13.05.1937
(Visser)		    
12   2C "Bars + cross"   24.07.1923
(Putzel)		 31.10.1925
(Aab)		  
13   2C "Bars + CAPE" Bars on sides
(Putzel)		 1931?
(Aab)		  
14   2C " CAPE" 26 mm 12.09.1926
(Putzel)		 25.09.1928
(Aab)		  
15   2C " CAPE" 32 mm 17.01.1927
(Putzel)		 09.04.1928
(Aab)		  
16   2C " CAPE-KAAP"   28 mm 04.11.1947
(Putzel)		    
17   2C " CAPE/KAAP"   28 mm 1949
(Visser)		    
18   2C " CAPE/KAAP"   26 mm 15.01.1953
(Putzel)		    
19 "C/K" 2C " Blank"   26 mm 20.04.1951
(Putzel)		    
20 "O" 2C " Blank"  
(Aab)		    

WYNBERG CAMP
03.03.1924 to 12.03.1924
07.03.1927
Area: Cape Town
NOT  RECORDED

WYNDOVER
03.02.1936 to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Blank"     25.10.1957
(Putzel)		    

WYVEN
10.09.1951 to 25.05.1953
Renamed to Niewodia
Area: Swartruggens
NOT  RECORDED