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Post Offices CARDINGTON to CAVENDISH

CARDINGTON
01.07.1918 to 11.02.1924
Area: Kuruman

Not recorded

CARDOVILLE
15.11.1917 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "Bar"   Last seen:
26.03.1963
(Putzel)
17.11.1934
(Putzel)
Republic  

CARGO DRIFT
16.01.1922 to 17.05.1926
Area: Ladysmith

1   2C "?"
Visser
 
(Visser)
   

CARINO
Before 1953 to 08.07.1955
Renamed to Karino
Area: Nelspruit

1   2C "Bars" + cross   21.08.1954
(Putzel)
08.07.1955
(Putzel)
 

CARLCHEW
04.12.1950 to Republic
Renamed to Coalfields
Area: Breyten, Transvaal

Not recorded

CARLETONVILLE
24.04.1950 to Republic
Area: West Rand

1   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
28.12.1977
(Putzel)
24.06.1952
(Putzel)
 Republic  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton ??.01.1953
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Blank" Narrower circles
smaller lettering
05.07.1951
(Aab)
 12.04.1957
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Blank"   Larger lettering 16.02.1954
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "T.O." New discovert 11.09.1958
(Aab)
   

CARLISLE BRIDGE
Union to 07.03.1955
Area: Grahamstown

1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 17.09.1909
(Frescura)
Union 26.08.1930
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Blank"  

 

Bi-lingual 1950
(Putzel)
   

CARLISONIA
16.05.1927 to Republic
Area: Lichtenburg, Western Transvaal

1   2C "Blank   07.08.1928
(Aab)
1930
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Blank     25.06.1940
(Putzel)
   

CARLOW
25.06.1928 to Republic
Area: Louis Trichardt

1   2C "Bars + cross"     11.05.1933
(Putzel)
   

CARLTON (RAIL) (STATION)
Union to 22.05.1961
Area: Naauwpoort, Cape

1   1C "CGH" First seen: 17.07.1894
(Frescura)
Union 23.10.1910
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Blank"   RAIL 1941
(Putzel)
   

CARNARVON
Union to Republic
Area: ?

1   1C "CGH" Small postmark

First seen: 04.07.1891
(Frescura)
Union 06.01.1911
(Frescura)
3
2   SQC "CGH" First seen: 06.08.1900
(Aab)
Union 14.02.1911
(Frescura
 
3   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 02.11.1908
(Frescura)
Union 02.05.1921
(Frescura)
 
4   2C "S.AFRICA"     21.06.1921
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "Blank" 26 mm 10.07.1922
(Putzel)
06.12.1922
(Aab)
 
6   2C "Bars + cross"     02.05.1921
(Putzel)
   
7   2C "Blank" 29 mm 09.07.1923
(Aab)
27.04.1935
(Aab)
 
8   1C "Blank"   Skelton 24.03.1922
(Putzel)
   
9   2C "Bar"   09.02.1934
(Aab)
22.07.1935
(Putzel)
 
10   2C "Blank"   26 mm 06.03.1936
(Putzel)
   
11   2C "Blank"   25 mm 1940
(Putzel)
   
12   2C "Blank" 25 mm
Different R
Roman
06.04.1936
(Putzel)
31.07.1937
(Aab)
 
13   2C "BETAALD/
PAID"
  Last seen: 18.12.1978
(Putzel)
28.03.1955
(Putzel)
Republic  
14     PARCEL
Visser
 
(Visser)
   
15     PARCEL
Visser
 
(Putzel)
   

CARNARVON FARM (PLAAS)
Union to 17.01.1919
Area: Sterkstroom

1   2C "Bars + cross"   26.10.1911
(Aab)
07.01.1919
(Putzel)
 

CAROLINA
Union to Republic
Area: Eastern Transvaal

1   2C "Cross"
Transvaal Philatelist
First seen
15.09.1902
(S.Payne)
Union 22.08.1929
(S.Payne)
 
2   2C-D
Half-moon
"Asterisk" First seen: 02.07.1906
(Aab)
Union 18.06.1917
(Aab)
 
3   2C "Bar"   28.01.1924
(Aab)
03.08.1925
(Putzel)
 
4   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton ?9.05.1925
(Visser)
   
5   2C "Blank" 28 mm 29.04.1932
(Aab)
22.10.1934
(Putzel)
 
6   1C "Blank" Skeleton

Not reported by Putzel
13.05.1935
(Aab)
15.04.1936
(Aab)
 
7   2C "Blank" 28 mm
Name more spread
18.12.1940
(Putzel)
09.08.1944
(Aab)
 
8   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 194?
(Visser)
   
9   2C "S.AFRICA
S.AFRIKA"

Ian Paterson
  10.11.1943
(Ian
Paterson)
28.12.1943
(Visser
 
10   2C "Blank"   06.11.1944
(Aab)
1954
(Aab)
 
11   2C "Blank" 25 mm
Last seen: 07.08.1978
(Putzel)
30.12.1954
(Putzel)
Republic  
12     PARCEL
Visser
 
(Visser)
   

CASSITERITE
24.03.1930 to 30.11.1942
Area: Naboomspruit, Transvaal

1   2C "Blank"   29 mm
(Putzel)
   

CASTLE ROCK
24.05.1930 to 27.04.1942
Area: Sabie, Eastern Transvaal

1   2C "Blank"   29 mm 04.10.1932
(Putzel)
   

CASTLETOWN
22.02.1937 to Republic
Area: Cape Town

1   1C "WYNBERG"   17.05.1949
(Aab)
19.01.1954
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Blank" Last seen: 20.04.1978
(Putzel)
21.12.1954
(Aab)
Republic  

CASTLE VIEW
01.01.1920 to 01.11.1937
Area: Underberg, Natal

Not recorded

CATHCART
Union to Republic
Area: 150 km from East London

1   1C "Blank"     26.08.1911
(Frescura)
   
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 11.08.1905
(Frescura)
Union 05.08.1916
(Frescura)
 
3   2C "Blank" S.AFRICA above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date
18.05.1917
(Aab)
03.03.1925
(Aab)
 
4   2C "Blank"
26 mm 14.05.1927
(Aab)
17.05.1937
(Aab)
 
5   2C "Bars + cross"     29.10.1936
(Putzel)
   
6   2C "Blank" 29 mm

Narrow second A
27.04.1944
(Aab)
02.07.1958
(Putzel)
 
7   2C "Blank"   26 mm
Wide A

Last seen: 14.08.1978
(Putzel)
1942
(Visser)
Republic  
8   2C "BETAALD/
PAID"
  Last seen: 14.08.1978
(Putzel)
September 1956
(Putzel)
Republic  
9   PARCEL  
Visser
 
(Visser)
   

CATHEDRAL PEAK
07.10.1940 to Republic
Area: Bergville

1   2C "Blank"   Last seen: 17.03.1978
(Putzel)
08.11.1955
(Putzel)
Republic  

CATO MANOR
27.07.1953 to 13.07.1959
Area: Durban

1   2C "Blank"     27.07.1953
(Putzel)
18.03.1957
(Putzel)
 

CATO RIDGE (RAIL) (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Between Durban and Pietermaritzburg

1   2C "NATAL" First seen 04.01.1901
(Aab)
Union 13.06.1923
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Blank"

  20.04.1933
(Aab)
   
3   2C "Blank" Square O

Last seen: 06.11.1976
(Putzel)
25.05.1947
(Aab)
Republic  

CAT'S PASS
19.03.1956 to Republic
Area: Butterworth, Transkei

1   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
1971
(Visser)
09.10.1957
(Putzel)
Republi  

CALVACADE
12.09.1944 to 16.09.1944
Temporary office
Area: Pietermaritzburg

1   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 12.09.1944
(Putzel)
   

CAVAN
19.05.1947 to Republic
Area: Newcastle

1   2C "Bars + cross"     1948
(Visser)
1958
(Visser)
 

CAVENDISH RAIL (STATION)
02.03.1925 to Republic
Area: Durban

1   2C "Blank"   30.01.1930
(Aab)
27.02.1952
(Putzel)