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Post Offices EAGLES CRAG to EDWALENI

EAGLES CRAG STATION
19.11.1934 to Republic
Area: Port Elizabeth
1 "/STA" 2C "Blank"     1942
(Visser)		 1948
(Visser)		  

EAST END DURBAN
Union to Republic
1   2C "NATAL"
Visser		  
(Aab)		 1928
(Visser)		  
       
2   2C "DURBAN"   29 mm
Wide lettering		 1942
(Visser)		 1946
(Visser)		  
3   2C "DURBAN"   30 mm   08.10.1958
(Putzel)		  

EAST END LICHTENBURG
Union to 1912
01.09.1914 to 28.08.1950
Renamed to Kieserville
1   2C "LICHTENBURG"
Visser		 26 mm 27.08.1946
(Visser)		 27.09.194?
(S.Payne)		  

EAST-LEIGH (RAIL) (STATION)
Union to 01.06.1945
Renamed to Orkney Station
Area: Klerksdorp
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"       26.12.1914
(Putzel)		  
2 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"
Visser		 S.SOUTH
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date		   26.04.1921
(Visser)		  

EAST LONDON
See separate listing

EAST LONDON CAMP
01.01.1940 to 25.03.1940
16.12.1940 to 09.03.1942
Not recorded

EAST LONDON JETTY
Union to 01.10.1914
`   2C "Bars +cross" First seen:
30.01.1903
(Frescura)		 Union 18.03.1912
(Aab)		  

EAST LONDON NON EUROPEAN (INDO NATIVE)
Union to Republic
1   2C "INDO NATIVE OFFICE"   17.05.1935
(Aab)		 ??.11.1937
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"   Bi-Lingual 05.12.1944
(Putzel)		 09.03.1953
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "2"   Index 2
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "3"   Bi-Lingual
lndex 3		 14.04.1958
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "4"   Bi-Lingual
lndex 4		 15.09.1958
(Putzel)		    

EAST LONDON PHILATELIC EXHIBITION
15.01.1948 to 17.01.1948
1   OVAL     15.01.1948
(Aab)		 17.01.1948
(Aab)		  

EAST LONDON RAIL
Union to 17.07.1913
1   1C "RO" First seen:
29.01.1897
(Frescura)		 Union 17.07.1913
(Aab)		  
2 "RO" 1C "CGH"     03.05.1913
(Frescura)		    

EASTONVILLE
13.09.1948 to 09.11.1959
Renamed to Mafatsana
Area: Vereeniging
Not recorded

EASTPOORT (RAIL) (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Bedford
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
17.05.1906
(Putzel)		 Union 10.09.1914
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bar"   20.12.1928
(Putzel)		 12.06.1946
(Aab)		  
3   1C "54"
Visser		 Skeleton 07.09.1954
(Visser)		    

EAST QUAGGA
17.05.1926 to Republic
Area: Hankey
1   2C "Blank"   Last seen:

(Putzel)
(Aab)		 Republic  
       

EAST RAND
Union to 1951
Renamed to Oosrand
Area: Boksburg
1   2C-D "TRANSVAAL"
Transvaal Philatelist		 27.01.1908
(S.Payne)		 Union 10.10.1910
(S.Payne)		  
2   1C "?"
Visser		 Skeleton 05.04.1911
(Visser)		    
3   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen:
31.01.1910
(Aab)		 Union 11.08.1913
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Asterisk" First seen:
??.12.1902
(Aab)		 Union 10.11.1924
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Blank" 28 mm 07.02.1918
(Putzel)		 14.05.1923
(Putzel)		  
6   2C "Blank"   26 mm 17.04.1926
(Putzel)		    
7   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 18.06.1925
(Putzel)		    
8   2C "Blank"   31 mm 1937
(Putzel)		    
9   2C "Blank" D below date 03.10.1935
(Aab)		    
10   1C "49" Skeleton 02.08.1949
(Aab)		 14.08.1949
(Visser)		  
11   2C "OOS-RAND" 26 mm
Bi-lingual		 21.01.1943
(Aab)		 30.01.1950
(Putzel)		  

EAST STRANGES
Union to 01.08.1918
Renamed to Umgodi
Area: Ixopo, Natal
1   POA "9" First seen:
1907		 Union 09.04.1911  
       
2   2C "Bars + cross"    
(Visser)		    

EASTWOLDS
08.10.1923 to Republic
Area: Donnybrook
1   2C "Blank"   24.11.1932
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  

EASTWOOD
21.08.1938 to 30.05.1938
04.06.1956 to 29.02.1960
Renamed from Garsfontein (1938)
Renamed to De Beersrust
Area: Pretoria
                 

EBENEZER
Union to 1951
Renamed to Ebenhaeser
Area: West Coast
1   OVAL   First seen:
10.11.1868
(Frescura)		 Union 1923
(Visser)		  

EBENHAESER
1951 to Republic
Renamed from Ebenezer
Area: West Coast
Not recorded
Republic postmark known

EBULINGA
1916 to 29.07.1935
Renamed to Nkasini
Area: Weenen, Natal
1   2C "?"
Visser		   1927
(Visser)		 19.03.1934
(Visser)		  

EDENBURG
Union to Republic
Area: South of Bloemfontein
1   2C "O.R.C." First seen:
24.03.1906
(Putzel)		 Union 01.11.1911(Aab)  
2   2C "S.AFRICA"   24.08.1917(Aab) 21.12.1921
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 08.07.1917
(Putzel)		 10.10.1924(Aab)  
4   2C "Blank" Narrow N 22.04.1931(Aab)  Republic  
5   1C "37"   Skeleton 03.04.1937(Putzel) 09.07.1937(Aab)  
       
6   2C "Blank"   Wider N
26 mm
Last seen:
14.08.1978
(Putzel)		 01.04.1942(Putzel)  Republic  
7   2C "Blank" 29 mm 20.05.1942(Aab) 09.05.1956(Aab)  
8   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 03.04.1957(Putzel)    

EDENDALE (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   1C "NATAL" First seen
 16.08.1886
 		 Union 10.09.1912
(Aab)		  
2 "RAIL 2C "NATAL"   "RAIL?" 03.04.1918
(Putzel)		 1926
(Visser)		  
3 "STA N" 2C "Blank"
Visser		   1937
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Bar"   02.05.1949
(Aab)		 1959
(Visser)		  

EDENVALE
Union to Republic
Area: North of Germiston
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   25.03.1920
(Putzel)		 16.02.1952
(Putzel)		  
       
2   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 29.06.1953
(Putzel)		    
4 "(T)" 2C "Blank" Last seen:
25.07.1962
(Putzel)		 31.10.1957(Aab)  Republic  

EDENVILLE
01.11.1913 to Republic
Area: Kroonstad
1   2C "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 02.06.1919
(Aab)		 06.08.1924(Aab)  
2   2C "Blank"   07.07.1933
(Aab)		 1936(Putzel)  
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 30.06.1944
(Aab)		    
       
4   2C "O.F.S / O.V.S." Last seen:
14.08.1965
(Visser)		 08.03.1954
(Aab)		 Republic  

EDWALENI
Union to 01.08.1912
Renamed to Punzi
Area: Port Shepstone
Not recorded
Natal postmark known