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Post Offices BERBICE to BERGVLIET

BERBICE
1921 to Republic
Area: Piet Retief
1   2C "Bars + cross "   01.04.1921
(Aab)		 29.05.1957
(Putzel)		  

BEREA ROAD DURBAN (BEREAWEG DURBAN)
Union to Republic
Area: Durban
(1)   2C "DURBAN NATAL" First seen:
09.04.1910
(Aab)		      
2   2C "Bar"   24.06.1932
(Putzel)		 22.06.1933
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "DURBAN" 25mm 23.05.1933
(Putzel)		 06.07.1942
(Aab)		  
4   2C "DURBAN"   26mm 03.08.1953
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "DURBAN" 26mm
Bi-lingual
Dash between languages
last seen: 09.08.1962
(Putzel)		 25.08.1952
(Putzel)		 Republic  
6   2C "DURBAN"   30mm
Bi-lingual
No dash
between languages
Last seen:
06.05.1964
(Putzel)		 22.10.1943
(Putzel)		 Republic  

BEREA ROAD RAIL
Union to 28.01.1924
Area: Durban
Unknown

BEREAVILLE
05.03.1954 to Republic
Area: Next to Genadendal near Caledon
Unknown
Republic postmarks known

BERGEN
Union to Republic
Area: Piet Retief
1   2C
Half moon		 "TRANSVAAL"   28.02.1912
(Aab)		 02.12.1935
(Putzel)		  

BERGENDAL
01.08.1916 to 01.10.1917
Area: near Belfast on the railway line
The last pitched battle of the Boer war was fought here
Unknown

BERGPLAATS - GEORGE -
09.05.1924 to Republic
Area: George
1   2C "CAPE"     10.08.1932
(Putzel)		    

BERGPLAATS - PIET RETIEF -
Union to 14.08.1922
Area: Piet Retief
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First Seen
15.07.1909
(Aab)		 Union 19.09.1914
(Putzel)		  

BERGRIVIERMOND (BERG RIVER MOUTH)
Union to 01.04.1916
Area: Hopefield on the West Coast
1   2C "Bar + cross" First seen:
05.03.1910
(Putzel)		 Union 14.08.1912
(Aab)		  

BERGRIVER (STATION) (RAIL) (BERGRIVIERSTASIE)
May 1911 to Republic
Area: Hopefield on the West Coast
1   1C "C.G.H."   BERG-RIVER  May 1911
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "S.AFRICA"   BERG RIVER RAIL  24.07.1913
(Putzel)		 21.08.1916
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Blank"   BERGRIVIER STASIE  28.04.1937
(Putzel)		    

BERGVILLE
Union to Republic
Area: On the slopes of the Drakensberg in Natal
1   2C "NATAL" First seen
12.01.1905
(Aab)		 Union 04.12.1922
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   03.05.1929
(Aab)		 21.02.1935
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank"   10.11.1938
(Aab)		 11.01.1953
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "Thin line"   21.07.1954
(Aab)		 25.04.1958
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "PAID-BETAAL"   Prepaid 1d   06.06.1955
(Putzel)		  

BERGVLEI
Union to Republic
Area: Johannesburg suburb
1   2C "Asterisk" First seen
22.11.1904
(Aab)		 Union 16.01.1924
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bar"   25.02.1933
(Aab)		 30.12.1948
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Blank" Different lettering to number 4
(B)		 15.05.1946
(Aab)		    
4   2C "Blank" Different lettering to number 3
(B)		 02.10.1946
(Aab)		 01.05.1958
(Aab)		  

BERGVLIET
14.05.1951 to Republic
Area: Cape Town southern suburb
1   2C "Blank" Last seen:
07.01.1979
(Putzel)		 04.06.1952
(Putzel)		 Republic