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Post Offices BURDENSPUT to BYZONDER

BURDENSPUT
30.08.1937 to 07.04.1947
Renamed to Aalwynsfontein
Area: Klawer, West Coast Cape
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton (Visser) )  

BURGERKAMP
12.12.1938 to 19.12.1938
Temporary post officeat the Voortrekker Monument
Area: Pretoria
1   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 12.12.1938
(Putzel)		 19.12.1938
(Putzel)		  

BURG(H)ERSDORP
Union to Republic

1   1C "CGH" Large typeface

First seen: 01.02.1897
(Frescura)		 Union 04.09.1913
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 02.01.1900
(Frescura)		 Union 05.06.1911
(Frescura)		  
3   1C "Blank" Skeleton?

First seen: 26.06.1906
(Frescura)		 Union 26.10.1923
(Putzel)		  
       
4   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 22.10.1913
(Putzel)		 20.09.1918
(Aab)		  
5   2C "S.AFRICA"   12.10.1912
(Aab)		 09.10.1917
(Putzel)		  
6   1C "S.AFRICA"
Visser		   07.06.1915
(Visser)		    
7   2C "Bars + cross"   15.09.1922
(Aab)		 12.05.1923
(Aab)		  
8   2C "Bars + cross" 31mm
Thik bars		 10.09.1929
(Aab)		 18.12.1930
(Visser)		  
9   2C "Bar"   07.06.1935
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  
10   2C "Blank"
 		 25 mm
P below date		 13.05.1931
(Putzel)		    
11   2C "Blank"
 		 25 mm
P parallel to date		 08.02.1930
(Putzel)		    
12   2C "Blank"
 		 28 mm
B and P below date		 30.04.1928
(Aab)		 10.10.1936
(Putzel)		  
13   2C "Blank"
28 mm
B and P below date
Different lettering to 10 and 12
(Oval O)		 18.05.1937
(Aab)		 17.04.1939
(Putzel)		  
14   2C "Blank"
28 mm
B and P below date
Different lettering to 10 and 11		 22.11.1939
(Aab)		 27.10.1949
(Putzel)		  
15   2C "Blank"
28 mm
B and P above date		 29.10.1943
(Aab)		 06.06.1950
(Aab)		  
16   2C "Blank"   Burgersdorp
H removed
26mm		 27.02.1951
(Putzel)		    
17   2C "Blank"   Burgersdorp
30mm		 16.01.1958
(Putzel)		    
18   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Burgersdorp
28mm		 01.08.1959
(Visser)		    
19   2C "1"
 		 Burgersdorp
Index 1		 06.12.1955
(Putzel)		    
20   PAECEL  
Visser
 		  
(Visser)		    

BURGERSDORP LOCATION
25.12.1939 to Republic
1   2C "Blank"
 		   01.04.1946
(Putzel)		    

BURGERSFORT
01.06.1919 to Republic
Area: Lydenburg
1   2C "Bar"
 		   26.05.1932
(Putzel)		 27.02.1934
(Aab)		  
       
2   1C "Blank"
 		 Skeleton 29.01.1957
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank" Last seen: 01.09.1989
(Putzel)		 04.04.1959
(Aab)		 Republic  

BURG(H)ERSHOOP
Union to Republic
Area: Krugersdorp
1   2C "KRUGERSDORP"   04.12.1914
(Aab)		 22.12.1928
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		   1957
(Visser)		    

BURGERSPARK
01.10.1945 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   1C "Blank" Skeleton 10.10.1945
(Aab)		    
2   2C "Blank" Last seen: 14.08.1978
(Putzel)		 06.04.1949
(Putzel)		 Republic  
3   2C "1" Index 1 03.05.1949
(Putzel)		 18.01.1955
(Putzel)		  

BURGERVILLE
Union to 02.04.1951
Area: De Aar, Cape
1   1C "Bars + cross"   : 14.06.1911(Putzel)    
2   2C "Bars + cross"   South
 above date
Africa
below date		 05.12.1936(Putzel)    

BURGERVILLE ROAD RAIL (STATION)
01.03.1912 to Republic
Area: Hanover, Cape
1   2C "Blank"  
(Putzel)		 30.01.1935(Aab)  

BURNS HILL
Union to Republic
Area: Kingwilliamstown
1   1C "CGH" Last seen:
22.12.1903
(Drewett)		 Union 16.04.1924
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"     17.09.1952(Putzel)    

BURNSIDE
01.09.1910 to 30.11.1959
Area: Glencoe, Natal
1   2C "Bars + cross"   25.10.1911
(Aab)		 06.02.1930(Aab)  
       
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		   ??.02.1942(Visser)    
3   2C "Cross"
(Visser)		     06.08.1942(Putzel)  
4   2C "Blank"       08.11.1952(Putzel)  

BURNTOP
01.09.1914 to 12.09.1955
Area: Piet Retief
1   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"   05.08.1931(Putzel) 1955(Putzel)  

BURSEA
Union to 01.01.1919
Renamed to Rockmount
Area: Estcourt
1   2C NATAL First seen:
18.10.1907
(Aab)		 Union 01.02.1911(Putzel)  

BUSEYS
1932 to 06.08.1934
Area: Matatiele, Transkei
Not recorded

BUSHBUCKRIDGE
Union to 1953
Renamed to Bosbokrand
Area: ?
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen:
23.05.1910
(Aab)		 Union
30.08.1940
(Aab)		  

BUSHLANDS
21.06.1928 to 19.11.1928
Area: Mtubatuba
Not recorded

BUSHMANSKOP
Union to 15.10.1934
Renamed to Boesmanskop
Area: Wepener
1   2C "Blank" ORC
removed
Bars on sides		 16.09.1910(Aab) 20.10.1922(Putzel)  
2   2C "Blank"       18.08.1934(Putzel)  

BUSHMANSKRANS (BUSHMANSKRANTZ)
Union to July 1930
Area: Piet Retief
1   2C "TRANSVAAL" Krantz   23.09.1914(Aab)  

BUSHMANS RIVER (STATION)
Union to 31.08.1953
Renamed to Boesmansrivier Stasie
Area: Somerset East
1   1C "STATION" First seen: 21.09.1898
(John Lund)		 Union 06.03.1916
(Frescura)
 		  
2 "STA" 2C "Blank"   21.12.1933(Putzel) 26.05.1950(Aab)  

BUTHA BUTHA
Area: Basutoland
Using Union stamps until December 1931
See Basutoland

BUSHNEK
01.05.1911 to 24.07.1922
Area: Fort Beaufort
Not recorded

BUTTERWORTH
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 17.03.1904
(Aab)		 Union 09.02.1911
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 25.03.1912
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Bars + cross" S. AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRICA
below date		 05.11.1918
(Aab)		 14.12.1918
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "S.AFRICA"
Paterson		   28.04.1922
(Putzel)		 02.10.1929
(Paterson)		  
5   2C "Blank"   30 mm 25.11.1933
(Putzel)		    
6   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 04.04.1924
(Putzel)		 1925
(Visser)		  
7   2C "Blank" 25 mm

B parallel to date		 27.05.1935
(Aab)		 12.08.1937
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Blank" 26 mm

B below date		 22.01.1940
(Putzel)		 27.03.1954
(Aab)		  
9   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 07.06.1956
(Visser)		    
10   2C "Blank"   03.03.1960
(Aab)		 27.10.1960(Putzel)  

BUXEDENI
30.08.1948 to Republic
Area: Mtubatuba
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

BUXTON
Union to Republic
Area: Balfour, Cape
1   1C "Dot"   First seen: 09.09.1906
(Frescura)		 Union 23.02.1915
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"     23.01.1914(Putzel) 1923(Visser)  

BUYSDORP
10.11.1952 to Republic
Area: Louis Trichardt
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

BYLSTEEL
18.08.1924 to Republic
Area: Pietersburg
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

BYNESTPOORT (BIJNESTPOORT)
ca. 1925 to Republic
Renamed from Bijnestpoort
Area: Pretoria
1   1C "Blank"   Skeleton?

Bijnestpoort		  
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank" Bynestpoort (Putzel) (Aab)  

BYRNE (BYRNETOWN)
Union to Republic
Area: Richmond, Natal
1   1C "NATAL" Byrnetown

Last seen:
??.??.1896
(Aab)		 Union 10.03.1911
(Aab)		 30
2   2C "Bars"   South above date
Africa below date		 08.04.1923(Putzel)    

BYZONDER
About 1922 to 20.06.1949
Renamed from Bijzonder
Area: Between Pretoria and Warmbad
Not recorded