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Post Offices COOKHOUSE to CRAWFORD

COOKHOUSE
Union to Republic

1   1C "Blank" Name 9 to 3 o'clock

First seen: 11.12.1903
(John Lund)		 Union 20.12.1911
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "S.AFRICA"   20.03.1913
(Putzel)		 01.07.1921
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank" 28 mm 1923
(Putzel)		 14.08.1940
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "Blank" 26 mm 14.08.1940
(Putzel)		 05.11.1948
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank"   29.06.1955
(Aab)		    

COOMBS
01.10.1913 to Republic
Area: Grahamstown
1   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
 above date
AFRICA
below date

Last seen: 28.08.1961
(Putzel)		 ??.04.1919
(Putzel)		 Republic  

COOPER'S KLOOF
23.12.1957 to Republic
Renamed from Cape Road
Area: Port Elizabeth
1   2C "Blank"   30 mm 26.02.1958(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
       

COR DELFOS
13.09.1937 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Blank" 26 mm
One word		 23.05.1940(Putzel) 07.10.1943
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   Two words

Last seen: 197?
(Putzel)		 21..11.1947
(Aab)		 Republic  
       
3   2C "Blank"   S lower
than C

Last seen: 09.08.1978
(Putzel)		 17.07.1959
(Putzel)		 Republic  

CORNELIA
Union to Republic
Area: Vrede, OFS
1   2C "S.AFRICA" 29 mm 24.02.1931(Putzel) 1935
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   06.07.1955(Aab)    

CORNELIS RIVER BRIDGE
Union to July 1913?
Area: Harrismith
1   BONC "117" Inter-provincial
(Aab)		    
2   2C "?"
Visser		 This office was renamed Warden about 1913. It is unusual to find interprovincial usage in the 1920s, and either the date is in error, the date stamp used as a relief, or applied by favour. Warden date stamp is recorded used from 1921.
(Visser)		 28.09.1922
(Aab)		    

CORNETSPRUIT
Union to 07.04.1944
Area: Zastron
Not recorded

CORNFORTH (HILL)
01.06.1920 to Republic
Area: Kimberley
1   2C "Blank"   26 mm (Putzel)    

CORONA
25.03.1935 to Republic
Area: Rustenburg
1   2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm 16.07.1937(Putzel) 29.10.1940(Putzel)  

CORONATION
15.08.1949 to Republic
Area: Vryheid
1   2C "Blank" 25 mm

Last seen: 21.08.1978
(Putzel)		 18.06.1957(Putzel) Republic  

CORSIKA (CORSICA)
01.07.1911 to 01.03.1913
01.10.1914 to 01.12.1919
Renamed to Kameelpan (1913)
Area: Lichtenburg
1   2C "?"     1912
(Putzel)		    

COTHERIDGE
26.03.1923 to 08.01.1930
03.01.1955 to 04.08.1958
Area: Zeerust
Not recorded

COTSDENE
23.04.1956 to Republic
Area: Port Elizabeth
1   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 09.05.1956(Visser)    
2   2C "Blank"     08.04.1959(Putzel)    

COTTESLOE
01.02.1937 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "Blank" C and E
above date		 10.06.1949
(Putzel)
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 01.05.1956
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"   C and E
below date		 16.11.1959
(Putzel)		 16.11.1959
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "JOHANNESBURG" Last seen
13.11.1962
(Putzel)		 31.10.1945
(Putzel)		 Republic  
5   PARCEL  
Visser		        
6   PARCEL  
Visser		        

COTTONDALE
13.09.1926 to Republic
Area: Acornhoek, Transvaal
1   2C "Blank"   26.08.1951
(Putzel)		 19.08.1955
(Aab)		  

COTTONFIELDS
27.10.1924 to 30.08.1937
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal
1   2C "Blank"   12.08.1929
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  

COVE ROCK
15.06.1959 to Republic
Area: East London
Not recorded

COVIE
Union to 08.08.1949
Area: Knysna
1   1C "CGH" First seen: 26.05.1908 26.05.1908 Union  

COVILLE
01.06.1913 to Republic
Area: Transkei
1   2C "S.AFRICA" Last seen:
28.06.1976		 11.05.1948
(Putzel)		 Republic  

COWIE'S HILL
16.09.1940 to Republic
Renamed from Wandsbeck
Area: Durban
1   2C "Blank"     20.02.1959
(Putzel)		    

CRADOCK
Union to Republic
Area: Eastern Cape
1   1C "Blank" Name 10-2 o'clock

First seen: 07.02.1888
(Frescura)		 Union 04.11.1913
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton

First seen:
28.04.1908
(Putzel)
to
25.10.1909
(Frescura)		 29.03.1913
(Aab)		 09.04.1913
(Frescura)		  
3   2C "Bars + cross" Side bars long

First seen:
23.01.1905
(Aab)		 Union 25.07.1924
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Bars + cross" South
above date
Africa
below date		 27.03.1914
(Aab)		 25.10.1920
(Aab)		  
5   2C "S.AFRICA"   12.06.1917
(Aab)		 17.04.1931
(Ian
Paterson)		  
6   2C "Blank"     18.02.1931
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "Bars + cross" Long thin lines
(Putzel)		 28.09.1937
(Aab)		  
8   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm
Gap between bars and cross		 27.05.1926
(Putzel)		 19.05.1937
(Aab)		  
9   1C "Blank"
Bram Leeflang		 Skeleton

New discovery		 05.??.1939
(Bram
Leeflang)		 07.03.1939
(Visser)		  
10   2C "Bars + cross" 32 mm
Smaller gap between bars and cross		 23.11.1943
(Aab)		 1953
(Aab)		  
11   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm
Thinner bars		 15.12.1945
(Aab)		 20.12.1956
(Putzel)		  
12   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		 Short thin lines 02.08.1957
(Visser)		    
13   2C "PAID 1/2d"
Visser		   03.09.1925
(Visser)		    
14   PARCEL  


Visser

  
(Visser)		    
15   PARCEL  
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

CRADOCK STATION (RAIL)
Union to 25.04.1921
Area: Cradock
1   1C "Blank" First seen: 28.05.1906
(Frescura)		 Union 05.02.1914
(Frescura)		  

CRAFTHOLE
02.01.1923 to Republic
Area: Vryburg
Not recorded
Republic postmark known

CRAIGHALL
Union to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG" First seen
03.12.1909
(Reier)		 Union 18.02.1945
(Putzel)		  

CRAIGHALL PARK
22.12.1924 to 11.01.1937
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG"    
(Putzel)		    

CRAIG RENNIE
Union to 31.10.1938
Renamed to Cheviot Fells
Area: Bedford
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
09.12.1901
(Aab)		 Union 15.01.1927
(Putzel)		  

CRAIG ROYSTON
21.04.1952 to 03.02.1958
Renamed from Modderfontein Cape
Area: Citrusdal
Not recorded

CRAIGFORTH
25.07.1938 to 18.01.1960
Area: Ladysmith
1   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    

CRAMOND
01.07.1914 to 09.10.1922
15.06.1953 to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C "Cross"   Last seen:
22.09.1978
(Putzel)		 23.01.1958
(Putzel)		 Republic  

CRAWFORD
28.12.1936 to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Blank" Last seen: 1993
Putzel		 10.01.1942
(Putzel)		 Republic