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Post Offices BUCHUBERG to BUNTINGVILLE

BUCHUBERG
09.02.1931 to 01.02.1932
08.10.1934 to 1953
Renamed to Boegoeberg
Area: Prieska

1   2C "Bar"
Visser
  20.05.1931
(Visser)
   
2   2C "Blank"   27.04.1931
(Aab)
25.09.1935
(Putzel
 

BUCKINGHAM
01.07.1912 to Republic

Renamed from Schoolplaats
Area: Ventersdorp

1   2C "S.AFRICA"   Last seen:
11.08.1978
(Putzel)
12.11.1930
(Putzel)
Republic  

BUCKLANDS
01.05.1918 to Republic
Area: Douglas

1   2C "Bar"   15.06.1932
(Putzel)
27.01.1934
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Blank" Last seen
11.11.1975
(Putzel)
01.07.1942
(Aab)
Republic  

BUFFALO HARBOUR (RAIL)
Union to June 1911
Area: East London

Not recorded

BUFFALONEK
03.10.1927 to Republic
Area: Mount Frere, Transkei

1   1C "Blank"    
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank"     14.12.1934
(Putzel)
   

BUFFALO RIVER
Union to 01.03.1913
Renamed to Tayside
Area: Dundee, Natal

1   2C "NATAL" First seen
23.12.1905
(Aab)
Union
(Aab)
150

BUFFELJAGTSRIVIER (BUFFELJAGSRIVIER) (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Renamed from Buffeljagtsrivier in 1906 but stll using BRIDGE in 1916
 Area: Swellendam

1   2C "Blank" 26 mm 13.11.1935
(Aab)
02.11.194?
(Putzel)
 
2 "RAIL" 2C "Bar"     17.04.1925
(Putzel)
   
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton
Buffeljagtsriv
28.01.1935
(Putzel)
   
4 "/STA" 2C "Blank"   23.05.1935
(Putzel)
02.10.1940
(Putzel)
 
5   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 1947
(Visser)
   
6   2C "Blank"   26 mm 23,04.1952
(Putzel)
   

BUFFELJAGTSRIVER BRIDGE
Union to 21.02.1916
Renamed to Buffeljagtsrivier in April 1905 still usung Bridge postmark in 1916

Area: Swellendam

1   1C "Dot" First seen:
08.07.1904
(Frescura)
Union 21.02.1916
(Frescura)
 

BUFFELS
Union to 01.11.1917
Renamed to Moketsi Rail
Area: Pietersburg

Not recorded
Transvaal postmark known

BUFFELSDOORING
Union to Republic
Area: Dordrecht

Not recorded

BUFFELSDRIF(T)
01.03.1911 to Republic
Area: Uniondale, Cape

1   2C "Bars + cross"   27,07.1934
(Putzel)
30,06.1945
(Putzel)
 

BUFFELSFONTEIN
Union to 20.04.1936
Area: Sterkstroom, Cape

1   1C "Dot"
Visser
First seen:
12.09.1893
(Frescura)
Union 06.11.1917
(Frescura)
 

BUFFELSHOEK
Union to 01.07.1913
Renamed to Brentford
Area: Somerset East

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
 07.12.1900
(Frescura)
Union 25.02.1913
(Visser)
 

BUFFELSKLIP
Union to 21.04.1952
Area: Uniondale, Cape

1   1C "CGH"   First seen:
17.09.1898
(Frescura)
Union 08.08.1911
(Putzel)
 

BUFFELSVLEI
Union to Republic
Area: Lydenburg, Transvaal

1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen:
15.03.1909
(Aab)

Last seen:
31.01.1975
(Putzel)
Union    

BUHRMAN(N)SDRIF(T)
Union to Republic
Area: Between Mafeking and Zeerust

1   2C "TVL"   12.06.1910
(Aab)
28.12.1914
(Putzel)
 
       
2   2C "Blank"   07.02.1946
(Aab)
   

BUITENSINGEL
01.04.1917 to Republic
Area: Cape Town

1   2C "CAPE TOWN
-KAAPSTAD"
  Asterisk on sides
Dash between Cape Town and Kaapstad
31.12.1919
(Putzel)
   
2   1C "?"
Visser
Skelton 04.03.1922
(Visser)
   
3   2C "CAPE TOWN
.KAAPSTAD"
No asterisk on sides
Dot between Cape Town and Kaapstad
02.11.1928
(Aab)
24.06.1932
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "CAPE TOWN
.KAAPSTAD"
30 mm 28.09.1956
(Putzel)
01.07.1958
(Aab)
 

BUKAZI
Union
to 01.06.1911
Area: Flagstaff, Transkei

1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
New discovery   ??.06.1910
(Visser)
 

BULGERIVIER
1939 to Republic
Area:Vaalwater, Transvaal

1   2C "Blank"   22.02.1943
(Aab)
26.10.1943
(Putzel)
 

BULHOEK
07.10.1938 to 10.10.1938
Temporary postmark for Voortrekker Festival
Area: Steynsburg

1   2C "Bars + cross"   07.10.1938
(Putzel)
10.10.1938
(Aab)
 

BULKRIVIER
Union to 17.09.1956
Area: Uitenhage, Cape

1   2C "Blank"   Bi-lingual
Bulkrivier/
Bulkriver
31.07.195?
(Putzel)
   

BULL HILL
22.01.1951 to
Republic
Area: Warrenton, Cape

Not recorded

BULLRUSH
12.07.1926 to 09.08.1926
Area: Pietersburg

Not recorded

BULPAN
01.04.1918 to 20.07.1921
20.01.1925 to 25.04.1957
Area: Witbank, Transvaal

1   2C "Bars + cross"   02.01.1933
(Putzel)
18.03.1956
(Aab)
 

BULSHOEK
01.02.1914 to Republic
Area: Van Rhynsdorp, Cape

1   2C "Bars + cross"   South above date
Africa below date
19.10.1915
(Putzel)
   

BULTFONTEIN
Union to Republic
Area: 100 km north of Bloemfontein

1   2C "Blank" ORC removed 27.03.1911
(Aab)
26.06.1912
(Aab)
 
2   1C "O F S "   Skeleton 21.??.1920
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Blank"   Smaller font 13.10.1920
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "Blank" Larger font 14.??.1932
(Aab)
24.10.1940
(Putzel)
 
5   2C "Blank"   21.12.1919
(Putzel)
10.11.1950
(Visser)
 
6   2C "Blank"   10.051960
(Aab)
   
7   2C "Blank"   04.11.1960
(Aab)
   

BULTSHOUDERSIG
03.10.1960 to Republic
Area: Beaufort West

Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

BULWATER
Union to 14.05.1956
Area: Prince Albert?

1   1C "Blank" First seen: 18.05.1903
(Frescura)
Union 06.09.1915
(Aab)
 
2   1C "Blank"   03.06.1935
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 

BULWER
Union to Republic
Area: Between Pietermaritzburg and Underberg

1   1C NATAL First seen:
20.03.1896
(Aab)
Union 10.10.1911
(Putzel)
 
2   1C NATAL   Relief 1912
(Visser)
29.01.1913
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Bars + cross"   30 mm 17.03.1923
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"     23.02.1929
(Aab)
17.06.1935
(Aab)
 
       
5   2C "Bars + cross" 29 mm 19.12.1946
(Aab)
20.11.1956
(Putzel)
 

BULWOOD
17.11.1958 to Republic
Area: Durban

1   2C "1" Last seen:
23.08.1978
(Putzel)
1961
(Aab)
Republic  

BUNGALOW
Union to 01.09.1911
Area: Nottingham Road, Natal

Not recorded

BUNTINGVILLE
08.05.1939 to 02.09.1946
02.02.1948 to Republic
Area: Umtata, Transkei

1   2C "Blank"
Vd Spuy
  02.12.1954
(Vd Spuy)