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Post Offices EMPANGENI to ERMELO

EMPANGENI
Union to Republic
Area: Zululand

1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides

First seen
02.10.1904
(Aab)
 
Union 25.05.1914
(Putzel)
 
2   1C "Blank" Not a skeleton 14.05.1926
(Putzel)
1933
(Visser)
 
3   2C "Blank" 30 mm 19.07.1933
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "Blank" 30 mm
Larger lettering
 than number 3
18.05.1942
(Putzel)
10.09.194?
(Aab)
 
5   2C "Blank"
Visser
32 mm
Larger lettering
15.05.1942
(Visser)
09.04.1947
(Putzel)
 
6 "ZULULAND" 1C "Blank" Skeleton 1946
(Visser)
1946
(Visser)
 
7   2C "Blank"   26 mm
8 to 4 o'clock
29.05.1953
(Putzel)
   
8   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1955
(Visser)
   
9   2C "Bar"   Relief 22.10.1959
(Putzel)
   

EMPANGENI STATION (RAIL)
01.06.1912 to 01.11.1913
27.12.1922 to Republic
Area: Zululand

1 "RAIL" 2C "S.AFRICA"   1914
(Visser)
05.12.1921
(Aab)
 
2 "RAIL" 1C "?"
Visser
  10.05.1916
(Visser)
   
3 "STATION" 2C "Blank"   ??.11.1923
(Putzel)
04.07.1935
(Aab)
 
4 "STATION" 2C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 22.06.1927
(Visser)
   
5 "STATION" 2C "Asterisk"   12.09.1929
(Aab)
22.11.1941
(Aab)
 
6 "STN" 1C "Blank"
Putzel
Skeleton 22.06.1927
(Putzel)
   
7 "STA" 2C "Blank"   07.11.1950
(Aab)
17.01.1956
(Putzel)
 
8 "(STA) . P/O" 2C "Blank"   19.08.1957
(Aab)
11.02.1958
(Aab)
 

EMPIRE EXHIBITION
31.08.1936 to 08.02.1937
Area: Johannesburg

           
(Putzel)
   

EMS
01.04.1912 to 01.10.1915
Renamed from Emms
01.03.1916 to 03.02.1947
Area: Bethulie

1   2C "?"    
(Putzel)
   

ENDICOTT (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to 23.01.1950
10.08.1953 to Republic
Transfered from Saamtrek (1953)
Area: East Rand

1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen:
12.05.1909
(S.Payne)
Union 02.07.1923
(Visser)
 
2   2C "Bar"   03.02.1938
(Aab)
17.08.1945
(Putzel)
 

ENDULINDI
01.04.1914 to 1953
Renamed to Ndulinde
Area: Zululand

1   2C "Bars + cross"   SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
09.03.1919
(Putzel)
1920
(Visser)
 

ENGCOBO
Union to Republic
Area: Transkei

1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen
03.05.1903
(Frescura)
Union 06.01.1917
(frescura)
 
2   2C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 29.10.1917
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross" Different G and C
longer bars
24.07.1920
(Putzel)
07.09.1936
(Aab)
 
4   2C "Bars + cross" Different G and C 26.06.1933
(Putzel)
15.08.1945
(Aab)
 
       
5   2C "Bars + cross" Heavier bars 1937?
(Putzel)
11.09.1939
(Aab)
 
6   1C "Blank"   01.05.1946
(Visser)
06.06.1946
(Aab)
 
7   2C "Bars + cross"     1937?
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "Bars + cross"   20.12.1946
(Putzel)
20.01.1956
(Aab)
 
9   2C "Bar"
Visser
Relief 1959
(Visser)
   

ENGELBRECHTSDRIF(T)
01.07.1911 to 11.03.1935
Renamed from Rhenosterkop
Renamed to Verena
Area: East of Pretoria

1   2C "Blank"
                                                  Visser
 
(Aab)
16.06.1932
(Visser)
 

ENKELDORING (ENKELDOORN)
29.07.1929 to Republic
Area: East of Pretoria

1   2C "TRANSVAAL" Last seen
18.07.1979
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 
Republic  

ENNERSDALE (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Estcourt

1   2C "NATAL" Last seen
09.07.1900
Union 25.10.1912  
2 "RAIL" 1C "Bar"   07.03.1922
(Visser)
1927
(Visser)
 
3 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"   1933
(Visser)
1940
(Visser)
 
4 "/STA" 2C "Blank"   ??.04.1952
(Aab)
20.03.1954
(Putzel)
 

ENON
Union to Republic

1   1C "Dot" First seen:
 06.10.1890
(Frescura)
Union 1937
(Visser)
 

ENQABENI
Union to 21.02.1944
Renamed to Nqabeni
Area: Harding, Natal

1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides

First seen:
03.03.1896
(Aab)
Union 31.12.1916
(Aab)
 
       
2   2C "Blank"
Visser
  194?
(Visser)
   

ENSELENI
12.01.1925 to 11.05.1925
Area: Empangeni

Not recorded

ENSELSBERG
1955 to Republic
Renamed from Enzelberg
Area: Zeerust

Not recorded
Republic postmark known

ENSELSPRUIT
21.10.1949 to Republic
Area: Potchefstroom

Not recorded
Republic postmark known

ENSTRA
10.04.1939 to Republic
Area: Springs

1   2C "Bars + cross"
  27.08.1945
(Aab)
11.01.1955
(Aab)
 

ENTONDWENI
20.07.1936 to 08.04.1940
Area: Mtubatuba

Not recorded

ENTRE NOUS
01.06.1925 to 09.07.1951
Area: Barberton

1   2C "Blank"     1928
(Putzel)
   

ENTUMENI
Union to 1953
Renamed to Ntumeni
Area: Zululand

1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides

First seen:
15.02.1910
(Aab)
Union 27.05.1914
(Aab)
 
       
2   2C "Blank"   12.01.1940
(Aab)
28.02.1947
(Visser)
 

ENYANISWENI
20.07.1936 to 1953
Renamed to Nyanisweni
Area: Transkei

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
  25.06.1937
(Visser)
   

ENZELBERG
Union to 1955
Renamed to Enselberg
Area: Zeerust

1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   1947
(Putzel)
   

EPPING (GARDEN)
06.05.1940 to Republic
Area: Cape Town

1   2C "Blank" Garden removed
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 
2   2C "Cross"
Visser
Last seen
11.08.1978
(Putzel)
01.02.1954
(Visser)
Republic  

EQWATSHA
Union to 06.05.1940
Area: Zululand

Not recorded
Natal postmark known

ERASMIA
24.05.1948 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
Renamed from Mooiplaas, Transvaal

1   2C "Bars + cross"   Last seen
16.08.1978
(Putzel)
14.03.1958
(Putzel)
Republic  

ERASMUS
01.06.1914 to 01.10.1932
Renamed  from Bronhorstspruit
Renamed back to Bronkhorsrspruit
Area: East of Pretoria

1   2C "Blank" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date
01.05.1915
(Aab)
   
2   2C "Blank"   08.11.1919
(Putzel)
22.01.1925
(Putzel)
 
3   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton
 
07.08.1924
(Visser)
   

ERDZAK
01.02.1911 to 01.12.1911
Area: Standerton

Not recorded

ERFDEEL
01.11.1911 to 01.11.1914
Renamed from Klipfontein, OFS
Area: Dewetsdorp

Not recorded

ERICKSWILL
January 1914 to 25.02.1952
Area: Boshof, OFS

1   2C "S.AFRICA"     1916
(Visser)
   

ERMA
29.10.1928 to Republic
Area: Klerksdorp

1   2C "Bars + cross"     27.01.1933
(Putzel)
04.11.1941
(Putzel)
 

ERMELO
Union to Republic
Area: Eastern Transvaal

1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen:
25.04.1906
(Putzel)
Union 1913
(Putzel)
 
2   2C-D "TRANSVAAL"   17.04.1912
(Aab)
05.03.1914
(Aab)
 
3   2C "Blank"   07.09.1915
(Putzel)
20.01.1922
(Aab)
 
4   2C-D "Bars + cross"
Visser
30 mm

Wide E

1915
(Visser)
1916
(Visser)
 
5   2C-D "Bars + cross" 32 mm 13.02.1922
(Putzel)
24.08.1925
(Aab)
 
6   2C-D "TRANSVAAL"
 
27 mm 28.01.1924
(Aab)
   
7   2C-D "Bars + cross"
28 mm 12.11.1930
(Putzel)
02.11.1932
(Aab)
 
8   2C-D "Bars + cross" 28 mm

thinner bars

20.08.1932
(Aab)
1936
(Aab)
 
9   2C "TRANSVAAL" 29 mm 14.10.1938
(Aab)
29.05.1941
(Visser)
 
10   2C "Bars + cross"   27 mm
(Putzel)
   
1   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm 14.06.1935
(Aab)
10.07.1947
(Aab)
 
12   1C "1957" Skeleton 14.06.1957
(Putzel)
   
13   2C "Cross" Last seen
24.04.1963
(Putzel)
11.05.1958
(Aab)
Republic  

ERMELO LOCATION
31.08.1942 to Republic

Not recorded