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Post Offices DROEREVIERSTASIE to DUNDONALD

DROERESVIERSTASIE
10.02.1930 to 02.01.1961
Renamed ftom Droogrivier Rail
Area: Beuafort West

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
29 mm 23.01.1933
(Visser)
1934
(Visser)
 
2 "/STA" 2C "Blank"   26 mm 23.07.1944
(Putzel)
   

DROEVIG
01.01.1913 to 01.08.1915
Area: Kokstad

Not recorded

DROEVLAKTE
1953 to Republic
Renamed from Droogevlakte
Area: Riversdale

Not recorded
Republic postmark known

DROGEPAN
01.08.1919 to 08.10.1923
Area: Pretoria

Not recorded

DROMMEDARIS (DROMEDARIS)
29.06.1953 to Republic
Area: Pretoria

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
One M only 1953
(Visser)
   
2   2C "3"
Visser
Two M 31.03.1955
(Visser)
   

DRONKVLEI
Union to 30.07.1928
Area: Pietermaritzburg

1   2C "NATAL" No markings on sides

First seen:
17.07.1899
(Aab)
Union 26.01.1911
(Aab)
 
       
2   2C "NATAL"   22.12.1910
(Aab)
30.01.1912
(Aab)
 
       

DROOGDAL
Union to 18.10.1954
Area: Newcastle

1   2C "NATAL"
Visser
  1911
(Visser)
1937
(Vsser)
 

DROOGPUTS
01.11.1920 to 08.08.1921
Area: Carnarvon

Not recorded

DROOGRIVIER (RAIL)
01.03.1926 to 10.02.1930
Renamed to Droerivier Stasie
Area: Beaufort West

Not recorded

DROOGEVLAKTE
01.09.1917 to 1954
Renamed to Droevlakte
Area: Riversdale

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
  ??.01.1936
(Visser)
   

DROOGVELD
01.01.1912 to 01.01.1915
01.10.1916 to 01.08.1944
Area: Kimberley

1   2C "Blank"     1927
(Putzel)
11.02.1940
(Putzel)
 

DROSTDY
Union to Republic
Area: Tulbagh

1   1C "CGH"   First seen:
23.11.1907
(Frescura)
Union 12.12.1914
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" Last seen:
11.08.1978
(Putzel)

(Aab)
Republic  

DRUENBERG
01.12.1911 to 01.10.1912
Renamed from Albert Junction
Renamed to Dreunberg
Area: Burgersdorp

Not recorded

DRUMMOND (RAIL)
Union to 02.06.1941
Area: Durban

1   2C "NATAL"     23.04.1925
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank"   ??.11.1930
(Putzel)
01.12.1935
(Aab)
 

DRUMMENDLEA
24.08.1936 to 09.01.1950
11.10.1955 to 04.02.1957
Renamed from Moorddrift (1936)
Area: Potgietersrust

1   2C "Blank"   22.03.1937
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 

DRUPFONTEIN
01.10.1916 to 01.03.1917
Area: Edenburg, OFS

Not recorded

DRUSANA
29.08.1960 to Republic
Area: Bloemfontein

Not recorded
Republic postmark known

DRYDEN (RAIL) (STATION)
01.03.1911 to Republic
Area: Germiston

1 "R.O." 2C "Blank" New discovery 04.10.1913
(Reier)
13.09.1926
(Visser)
 
2 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"   11.04.1933
(Aab)
18.12.1936
(Putzel)
 
       
3 "STA" 2C "Blank" New discovery 18.12.1946
(Aab)
   

DRYFSAND
21.06.1937 to 08.02.1960
Area: Nylstroom

1   2C "Blank"     24.10.1940
(Putzel)
   

DRY HARTS
01.07.1916 to Republic
Area: Vryburg

1   2C "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
25.05.1932
(Putzel)
11.08.1943
(Aab)
 

DUBE
07.10.1957 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "ORLANDO"   Last seen:
24.05.1968
(Putzel)
10.11.1958
(Aab)
 Republic  
       

DUDUDU
1953 to Republic
Area: Durban

Not recorded

DUFFFIELD
15.10.1934 to 05.02.1940
Area: Durban

1   2C "Blank"     14.11.1934
(Putzel)
   

DUFF'S ROAD (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Durban

1 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"     04.03.1931
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleto) 9.05.1935
(Visser)
   

DUIKERFONTEIN
01.05.1913 to 13.10.1930
Area: Lichtenburg

Not recorded

DUIKERRIVER
July 1910 to 01.12.1910
01.09.1914 to 01.02.1919
Area: Nylstroom

Not recorded

DUIKERSDAL
06.09.1954 to Republic
Renamed from Abrahamsdam
Area: Prieska

Not recorded
Republic postmark known

DUIVELSKLOOF (DUIWELSKLOOF)
Union to Republic
Area: Tzaneen

1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen:
 21.12.1906
(Aab)
Union 23.08.1922
(Putzel)
 
     
2   1C "Blank"
(Visser)
Skeleton 29.09.1922
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Blank" Duivelskloof 23.04.1923
(Aab)
17.08.1927
(Aab)
 
4   1C "Blank" Skeleton
(Visser)
1932
(Aab)
 
5   2C-D "Bar"   Duivelskloof
(Putzel)
   
6   2C "Blank" Duivelskloof
Not recorded
by Putzel
1947
(Visser)
10.p5.1954
(Visser)
 
7   2C-D "Blank"   Duiwelskloof 26.11.1953
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "Blank"   Duiwelskloof 26.11.1953
(Putzel)
   
9   2C "Blank" Duiwelskloof 15.02.1955
(Putzel)
21.12.1959
(Aab)
 

DUKATHOLE
12.09.1945 to Republic
Area: Aliwal North

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
Last seen:
15.07.1965
(Putzel)
1953
(Visser)
Republic  

DULLSTROOM (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Belfast

1   2C "Asterisk" First seen:
10.10.1903
(Aab)
Union 28.02.1913
(Putzel)
 
2 "RAIL" 2C "TRANSVAAL"
Visser
This was a
telegraph office
05.08.1918
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross" Last seen:
15.08.1978
(Putzel)
07.02.1933
(Aab)
Republic  
4   2C "Dot"
 
  26.05.1935
(Aab)
29.11.194?
(Aab)
 

DUMATIS
10.07.1939 to 26.08.1957
Area: West Rand

1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
  18.08.1947
(Visser)
   

DUMISA
Union to 05.08.1957
Area:Durban

1   2C "NATAL" Markings on sides

Last seen:
 03.08.1901
(Putzel)
Union 11.07.1910
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
* 1?.10.1946
(Visser)
   

DUNBRODY
25.04.1927 to Republic
Area: Addo

1   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
24.12.1972
(Putzel)
30.09.1931
(Putzel)
Republic  

DUNDEE
Union to Republic

1   2C "NATAL" Blocks on sides
Blocks level with date

First seen:
 30.05.1910
(Aab)
Union 25.07.1913
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "NATAL" Blocks on sides
Blocks below date
Union 27.05.1914
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "S.AFRICA"   11.07.1912
(Putzel)
20.05.1914
(Aab)
 
4   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"     22.06.1916
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "Bars + cross" 28 mm
Bars above date
13.11.1919
(Aab)
1921
(Aab)
 
6   2C "Bars + cross" 30 mm
Bars below date
Large gap between
bars and name
11.10.1921
(Aab)
08.11.1926
(Aab)
 
       
7   2C "Bars + cross" 30 mm 23.04.1920
(Putzel)
07.06.1921
(Aab)
 
8   2C-D "Bars + cross" 30 mm ??.09.1929
(Aab)
17.03.1931
(Putzel)
 
9   2C-D "Cross"   31 mm 11.05.1936
(Putzel)
   
10   2C "Bars + cross"   27 mm
Thin lines
22.11.1934
(Putzel)
   
11   2C-D "Bars + cross"   05.05.1938
(Putzel)
06.07.1952
(Aab)
 
12   2C "Bars + cross" 30  mm
Thinner bar and larger lettering than No. 6

(Putzel)
   
13   2C "Bars + cross"   26  mm
DUNDEE longer

(Putzel)
   
14   2C "Cross" 26  mm 02.11.1945
(Putzel)
13.07.1950
(Putzel)
 
15   2C "Bars + cross"   Last seen:
11.09.1978
(Putzel)
06.05.1952
(Putzel)
Republic  
16   2C-D "2"   Index 2
Last seen:
29.01.1962
(Putzel)
30.10.1958
(Putzel)
Republic  
17   2C "PAID"   07.11.1931
(Visser)
23.04.1932
(Aab)
 
18   PARCEL   Index 1
(Visser)

(Aab)
 

DUNDONALD
01.07.1917 to 01.04.1918
Area: Eastern Transvaal

1   2C "Bars + cross" Not recorded by Putzel
New discovery
05.11.1917
(Aab)