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Post Offices CABAVALE to CALVINIA

CABAVALE
24.09.1928 to Republic
Area: Qumbu, Transkei
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

CADET CAMP, PIETERMARITZBURG
June or July 1912
Temporary post office
Not recorded

CALA
Union to Republic
1   1C "Blank" 10-2 o'clock

First seen: 24.07.1902
(Aab)		 Union 13.10.1924
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 06.02.1902
(Aab)		 Union 01.09.1921
(Frescura)		  
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 04.01.1924
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm
Bars up to Cala		 ??.11.1932
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "Bars + cross" 25 mm
Bars up to Date
 		 13.08.1925
(Aab)		 15.03.1948
(Putzel)		  
6   2C "Bars + cross" 25 mm 09.11.1936
(Putzel)		 194?
(Aab)		  
7   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton ??.03.1937
(Visser)		    

CALA ROAD RAIL (STATION)
01.12.1913 to Republic
Area: Cala, Transkei
1   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
 below date		 17.08.1914
(Putzel)		 194?
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 17.11.1947
(Putzel)		    
3 "-WEG 2C "Cross" 26mm 09.01.1954
(Visser)		    

CALDERWOOD
Union to Republic
Area: Alice, Cape
1   1C "Blank"   First seen:
02.09.1907
(Frescura)		 Union 24.02.1912
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"     04.11.1949
(Putzel)		    

CALEDON
Union to Republic

1   1C "Blank"   Small typeface
Name: 9-3 o'clock		 05.08.1910
(Putzel)		    
2   1C "Blank" Small typeface
Name: 10-2 o'clock

First seen: 20.03.1906
(Frescura)		 Union 03.03.1927
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 20.03.1906
(Frescura)		 Union 25.04.1913
(Frescura)		  
4   2C "Blank" South
above date
Africa
 below date		 14.12.1914
(Aab)		 07.08.1923
(Putzel)		  
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 15.01.1925
(Putzel)		    
6   2C "Bars + cross" 28 mm 03.04.1926
(Putzel)		 18.10.1926
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Bars + cross"   04.04.1929
(Aab)		 17.05.1935
(Aab)		  
8   2C "Bars + cross"   01.07.1935
(Aab)		 11.06.1937
(Aab)		  
9   2C "Cross"   13.10.1942
(Putzel)		 18.09.1943
(Aab)		  
10   2C "Bars + cross" Narrow C and D 03.12.1945
(Aab)		 22.10.1954
(Aab)		  
11   2C "Cross"
Visser		   04.10.1953
(Visser)		 18.09.1943
(Aab)		  
12   2C "PAID/BETAAL"     29.04.1960
(Putzel)		    

CALEDONIA
Union to 30.11.1925
Area: Breyton, Transvaal
Not recorded

CALEDONIAN
23.12.1952 to Republic
Area: Barberton, Eastern Transvaal
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

CALEDON ST. CAPE TOWN
Union to 14.04.1924
Renamed to Caledon Square
1 "C.T." 2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
18.11.1907
(Frescura)		 Union 21.03.1923
(Aab)		  
2   2C "CAPE TOWN,
KAAPSTAD"		     11.09.1920
(Putzel)		    

CALEDON SQUARE (CALEDONPLAIN)
14.04.1924 to Republic
Renamed from Caledon Street
Area: Cape Town
1 "C.T." 2C "Blank"     13.07.1934
(Putzel)		    
2 "CT" 2C "Blank"   Skeleton 16.08.1937
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "CAPE TOWN,
KAAPSTAD"		   26 mm
Square only		 02.11.1938
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "CAPE TOWN,
KAAPSTAD"		 30 mm
Square only		 18.11.1945
(Aab)		 (Putzel)  
5 "/PLEIN" 2C "CAPE TOWN,
KAAPSTAD"		 29 mm
Bilingual

Last seen:
10.08.1978
(Putzel)		 12.10.1943
(Aab)		 Republic  
6   PARCEL   Caledon SQ, PLEIN

New discovery		      

CALITZDORP
Union to Republic

1   1C "CGH" First seen: 13.03.1899
(Frescura)		 Union 23.11.1914
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
18.09.1909
(Frescura)		 Union 09.10.1913
(Frescura)		  
3   1C "Bar"   16.06.1920
(Aab)		 20.11.1925
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "Bars + cross"   23.01.1923
(Aab)		 19.02.1934
(Aab)		  
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 04.05.1927
(Putzel)		    
6   2C "Blank" Smaller lettering
Name above date		 10.04.1931
(Aab)		 04.05.1935
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Blank" 29 mm 31.08.1940
(Aab)		 1942
(Aab)		  
8   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 24.12.1946
(Putzel)		 12.03.1947
(Putzel)		  
9   2C "Blank" 26 mm

Last seen:
06.04.1978
(Putzel)		 28.08.1947
(Aab)		 Republic  

CALVERT(S)
20.01.1936 to Republic
 Renamed from Metzelfontein
Area: Vryheid
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 CALVERTS 1943
(Visser)		 1953
(Visser)		  

CALVINIA
Union to Republic

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
13.11.1896
(Frescura)		 Union 25.01.1917
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
13.03.1908
(Frescura)		 Union 07.02.1912
(Frescura)		  
3   2C "S.AFRICA"     11.12.1913
(Putzel)		 25.11.1916
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "Bar"   17.06.1921
(Aab)		 11.09.1931
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Bar"   C and A
touching date		 10.03.1925
(Putzel)		    
6   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 25.05.1932
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "Blank" 30 mm 22.05.1933
(Paterson)		 27.04.1936
(Putzel)		  
8   1C "35"   Skeleton 1935
(Putzel)		    
9   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Spaced lettering
Wide A		 30.07.1937
(Putzel)		 04.10.1938
(Aab)		  
10   2C "Blank" 26 mm

Last seen: 02.10.1963
(Putzel)
 		 03.03.1947
(Putzel)		 Republic  
11   2C "Blank"   31 mm 24.06.1959
(Putzel)		    
12   2C "PAID/BETAAL"   30 mm

Last seen: 09.08.1978
(Putzel)		 29.11.1952
(Putzel)		 Republic