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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)