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Post Offices CLAIREMONT to CLUTHA

CLAIREMONT
Union to 01.04.1911
Renamed to Clairwood
Area: Durban
Not recorded
Natal postmark known

CLAIRWOOD (RAIL) (STATION)
01.04.1911 to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "Bars + cross"   28.02.1912
(Putzel)		 ??.10.1913
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   13.03.1930
(Putzel)		 23.09.1935
(Aab)		  
3   2C "1"     12.11.1956
(Putzel)		    

CLAIRWOOD CAMP
25.06.1944 to 02.12.1946
Area: Durban
1   2C "Blank"   28.12.1944
(Aab)		 08.03.1946
(Putzel)		  

CLANSTHAL
20.08.1928 to 25.11.1929
Area: Umkomaas, Natal South Coast
Not recorded

CLANVILLE
01.09.1915 to Republic
Area: Dordrecht, Cape
1   2C "Bars + cross"     20.06.1931
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank" Last seen: 25.08.1978
(Putzel)		 1937
(Visser)		 Republic  

CLANWILLIAM
Union to Republic
Area: West Coast
1   2C "Bars + cross" "N" reversed

First seen: 15.03.1902
(Aab)		 Union 06.05.1912  
2   2C "Bars + cross" "N" normal

First seen: 06.01.1902
(Aab)		 Union 1913
(Viiser)		  
3   2C "S.AFRICA"   28.01.1918
(Aab)		 23.01.1935
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "Blank" 26 mm 10.12.1929
(Aab)		 18.02.1936
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Blank" 29 mm 26.10.1938
(Putzel)		 08.05.1950
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Blank"   29 mm 22.06.1953
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "Bar"
Visser		 Relief 1959
(Visser)		 05.02.1960
(Visser)		  
8   2C "Blank"   30 mm
Last seen: 16.05.1978
(Putzel)
 		 15.03.1961
(Aab)		 Republic  
       

CLAPHAM
26.10.1925 to 19.05.1930
Area: Lydenburg
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		   05.08.1927
(Visser)		    

CLARADALE
01.05.1914 to 01.04.1916
Area: Griquatown
Not recorded

CLARE ESTATE
11.01.1943 to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
11.04.1962
(Putzel)		 14.02.1955
(Aab)		 Republic  

CLAREINCH
06.01.1936 to Republic
Area: Southern Suburbs Cape Town
1   2C "Blank"   25 mm

Last seen:
12.05.1978
(Putzel)		 14.03.1952
(Putzel)		 Republic  
2   2C "Blank" 28 mm

Last seen: 13.05.1967
(Putzel)		 1957
(Aab)		 Republic  
3   1C "6  V"   Skeleton 06.05.1958
(Putzel)		    

CLAREMONT
Union to Republic
Area: Southern Suburbs Cape Town
1   1C "Blank" First seen: 13.09.1899
(Aab)		 Union 13.06.1911
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars +cross" First seen:
24.12.1905
(Frescura)		 Union 31.12.1921
(Frescura)		  
3 "CAPE" 2C "Bars +cross" First seen:
11.12.1907
(Frescura)		 Union 07.09.1911
(Frescura)		  
       
4 "CAPE" 2C-D "S.AFRICA"     01.10.1913
(Putzel)		    
5 "CAPE" 2C-D "Bars + cross" Bolder bars 06.11.1911
(Aab)		 01.04.1915
(Aab)		  
6 "CAPE" 2C-D "Bars + cross" Thinner bars 29.06.1916
(Aab)		 06.11.1922
(Putzel)		  
7   2C "Blank"   25 mm 1925
(Putzel)		    
8   2C-D "Blank"   30 mm 30.10.1926
(Putzel)		    
9   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 03.05.1929
(Visser)		    
10   2C-D "Blank" 34 mm 23.09.1929
(Aab)		 19.10.1933
(Putzel)		  
11   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1932
(Visser)		    
12   2C "Blank"   26 mm 04.01.1937
(Putzel)		    
13   2C "Blank"
  12.05.1937
(Putzel)		 09.07.1946
(Aab)		  
14   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 19.10.1943
(Putzel)		    
15   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1946
(Visser)		    
16   2C "Blank" 26mm

Last seen: 22.08.1978
(Putzel)		 07.07.1944
(Putzel)		 Republic  
17   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1954
(Visser)		    

CLARENS
01.03.1913 to Republic
Renamed from Ararat
Area: North Eastern Freestate 10km from Lesotho border
1   2C "S.AFRICA"   08.09.1928
(Aab)		 1935
(Visser)		  
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton
Not recorded by Putzel		 22.10.1937
(Aab)		 12.02.1939
(Visser)		  
3   2C "Bars + cross" Last seen: 10.08.1978
(Putzel)		 03.09.1945
(Aab)		 Republic  

CLARIDGE (RAIL) (STATION)
01.12.1911 to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C "?"
Visser		 26mm 1927
(Visser)		    
1   2C "Blank"   Last seen: 07.09.1978
(Putzel)		 1927
(Aab)		 Republic  
       

CLARKBURY (CLARKEBURY)
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
06.11.1908
(Frescura)		 Union 06.10.1917
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 02.01.1918
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Bar"
Ian Paterson		   18.05.1931
(Putzel)		 05.08.1931
(Ian
Paterson)		  
4   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Visser 10.08.1936
(Visser)		 07.04.1937
(Visser)		  
4   1C "Blank  
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank" Wide
Below is dirt		 06.11.1942
(Putzel)		 02.05.1947
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Blank"   Narrow W 07.08.1950
(Putzel)		    

CLARKE ROAD
Union to 01.03.1920
Area: Durban
Not recorded
Natal postmark known

CLARKSON
Union to Republic
Area: Humansdorp
1   1C "Dot" First seen:
23.03.1889
(Frescura)		 Union 10.08.1932
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
17.08.1978
(Putzel)		 06.02.1936
(Putzel)		 Republic  

CLAYPAN
01.06.1920 to 13.06.1921
18.09.1922 to 18.10.1937
Renamed to Trawal
Area: Cape West Coast
1   2C "Bars + cross"     22.08.1936
(Putzel)		    

CLEARWATER
Union to 01.05.1918
Area: Barkly East
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen: 27.10.1905
(Frescura)		 Union 06.01.1913(Aab)  

CLERNAVILLE
07.08.1950 to Republic
Area: Pinetown, Durban
1   2C "Blank"     11.03.1958
(Putzel)		 18.03.1958
(Aab)		  
       

CLEVELAND
Union to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
1 "TVL" 1C "Blank" Skeleton
New discovery		 09.06.1910
(Reier)		    
2   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen: 26.08.1907
(Aab)		 Union 09.05.1917
(S.Payne)		  
3   1C "Blank" Skeleton
New discovery
(Aab)		 1918
(Visser)		  
4   2C-D "TRANSVAAL" Inner circle
above “T”		 10.10.1910
(Aab)		 10.01.1918
(S.Payne)		  
5   2C-D "Bar"     14.09.1923
(Putzel)		 23.03.1937
(Aab)		  
       
6   2C "Blank" Wider circles 17.02.1919
(Aab)		 09.10.1931
(Putzel)		  
7   2C-D "Blank"   15.06.1936
(Putzel)		 15.12.1956
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Blank"   16.06.1936
(Putzel)		 27.02.1948
(Aab)		  
9   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
14.02.1978
(Putzel)		 08.08.1952
(Putzel)		 Republic  
10   2C "SA-CB" New discovery 18.03.1955
(Aab)		    
11   PAECEL  
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

CLEVELAND DEPOT
15.06.1954 to 1959
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "Blank"     15.06.1954
(Putzel)		    

CLEWER
01.04.1929 to Republic
Renamed from Brugspruit
Area: Witbank
1   2C "Bars + cross"   17.04.1952
(Putzel)		 10.01.1956
(Aab)		  

CLIFFDALE STATION
03.02.1936 to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "Blank"   Last seen: 22.03.1962
(Putzel)		 11.11.1958
(Putzel)		 Republic  

CLIFFORD
Union to Republic
Area: Dordrecht
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
29.05.1904
(John Lund)		 Union 01.01.1913
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 07.03.1925
(Visser)		    
2   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
29.01.1962
(Putzel)		 03.11.1949
(Putzel)		 Republic  

CLOBER
08.06.1925 to 28.10.1929
Area: Vryburg
Not recorded

CLOCOLAN
Union to Republic
Area: Eastern OFS
1   2C "Blank" ORC removed 10.10.1910
(Aab)		 04.05.1914
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank" as number 1
but square stops removed		 26.07.1920
(Putzel)		 11.09.1925
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank" South
above date
Africa
below date		 23.12.1914
(Aab)		 31.12.1922
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Blank"   25 mm 1932
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "Blank" 32 mm 28.03.1928
(Putzel)		 23.03.1929
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Bar"   29 mm 18.03.1923
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "Blank" Wide N and A 1939
(Putzel)		 04.11.1957
(Aab)		  
8   2C "Blank" Narrow N ??.09.1942
(Aab)		 12.04.1958
(Aab)		  
9   Parcel  
Visser		   (Visser)    

CLOCOLAN STATION (RAIL)
Union to 1912
1   2C "R.O."     13.09.1910
(Putzel)		    

CLOVERDENE
07.10.1946 to Republic
Area: Benoni, East Rand
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

CLUBVIEW
22.10.1945 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 28.03.1947
(Putzel)		    

CLUMBER
16.05.1921 to Republic
 Office closed 1893 and reopened 1921
Area: Grahamstown
1   1C "Dot" First seen: 15.08.1892
(Frescura)		   04.07.1930
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" Last seen:
17.08.1978
(Putzel)
(Aab)		 Republic  

CLUTHA
Union to 01.12.1913
Area: Cala, Transkei
(1)   1C "Blank" First seen:
 03.01.1906
(Visser)