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Post Offices FLINKFONTEIN to FORT YOLLAND

FLINKSFONTEIN
01.07.1919 to 27.12.1948
Renamed from Letland
Area: Queenstown

Not recorded

FLORA
24.11.1947 to Union
Area: Marquard, OFS

Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

FLORADALE
Union to 01.10.1919
Area: Postmasburg

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
06.01.1899
(Frescura)
06.01.1899 28.09.1916
(Putzel)
 

FLOREX
25.09.1950 to Republic
Area: West Rand

Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

FLORIANVILLE
21.03.1955 to Republic
Area: Kimberley

1   2C "Blank"   16.01.1956
(Aab)
   

FLORIDA
Union to Republic
Area: West Rand

1   2C-D "Asterisk" First seen
??.10.1904
(S.Payne)
Union 12.04.1911
(S.Payne)
 
2   2C-D "Bars + cross" 31 mm

S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date
01.04.1911
(Aab)
06.09.1920
(Aab)
 
3   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm

S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date
03.10.1935
(Putzel)
06.09.1920
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Bar"   29 mm

Heavy bar
27.06.1934
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "Bars + cross" 29 mm

Thin lines
05.05.1938
(Aab)
1952
(Visser)
 
6   1C "Blank" Skeleton

New discovery
16.11.1949
(Aab)
   
7   2C "Bars + cross"   19.03.1940
(Aab)
12.05.1955
(Visser)
 

FLORIDA DEPOT
1955 to Republic
Area: West Rand

1   2C "DEPOT" Last seen:
07.09.1962
(Putzel)
02.11.1957
(Aab)
Republic  

FLORIDA ROAD DURBAN
Union to Republic

1   2C "DURBAN"   26.06.1941
(Putzel)
10.04.1942
(Aab)
 

FLORISBAD
23.07.1927 to Republic
Area: Brandfort

1   2C "Blank"
V.d. Spuy
  06.12.1934
(Putzel)
1951
(V.d. Spuy)
 

FLOUKRAAL
15.06.1945 to Republic
Renamed from Flaauwkraal
Area: Aliwal North

1   2C "Blank" Last seen:
08.04.1975
(Putzel)
15.06.1945
(Putzel)
Republic  

FLUITFONTEIN
01.06.1917 to 01.10.1917
Renamed to Fransenhof
Area: Prieska

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
  26.06.1917
(Visser)
   

FOCHVILLE
01.11.1920 to Republic
Area: Potchefstroom

1   1C "Blank" Skeleton 14.01.1921
(Putzel)
11.02.1921
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Blank"   18.05.1933
(Putzel)
05.02.1945
(Aab)
 
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 09.06.1958
(Putzel)
   

FONDRIE
16.01.1939 to Republic
Area: Germiston

Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

FONTAINEBLEAU JOHANNESBURG
Union to Republic

1   2C "TRANSVAAL" First seen
31.05.1910
(S.Payne)
 
1937
(Visser)
24.02.1939
(Putzel)
 

FONTEINRIET - BETHLEHEM -
Union to 01.02.1915
01.02.1916 to 28.04.1941
Renamed to Witroosboom

1   2 "?"
Visser
 
(Visser)
   

FONTEINRIET - BOKSBURG -
04.08.1958 to Union

1   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 12.08.1958
(Putzel)
   

FONTYN
01.01.1920 to 1928
Renamed to Prinshof
Area: Sutherland

Not recorded

FOOTHILLS
03.08.1925 to 06.05.1957
Renamed Hekpoort Wes
Area: Magaliesburg

1   2C "Blank"   14.09.1954
(Putzel)
   

FORBES REEF - SWAZILAND -
Union to 01.01.1933

1   2C "SWAZILAND" Asterisks on sides
Not mentioned
 by Putzel

First seen
17.06.1906
(Aab)
Union 17.07.1917
(Proud)
 
2   2C "Bar"
Visser
Last seen
01.10.1935
(Proud)
10.10.1932(Visser) 01.01.1933  

FORDSBURG
Union to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "JOHANNESBURG"
Transvaal Philatelist
First seen:
 08.12.1904
(S.Payne)

"F” closer
 to “J”
Union ??.04.1916
(Putzel)
 
2   2C-D "TRANSVAAL" First seen:
06.12.1909
(S.Payne)
 
Union ??.05.1918
(S.Payne)
 
3   1C "S.A."   Skeleton 13.06.1914
(Putzel)
22.06.1914
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Bars + cross"  
 

(Putzel)
   
5   2C "Blank"     06.05.1939
(Aab)
   
6   2C "JOHANNESBURG" Last seen:
14.08.1978
(Putzel)
06.11.1945
(Aab)
Republic  
7   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   Gap between
names larger

Last seen:
14.08.1978
(Putzel)
1950
(Visser)
Republic  
8 "(JOHANNESBURG)" 2C "Blank" Last seen:
14.08.1978
(Putzel)
28.05.1956
(Aab)
Republic  
9   PARCEL    
(Visser)
   

FORDS CAMP
01.06.1917 to 01.03.1919
Area: Louis Trichardt

Not recorded

FORESTGUMS
12.04.1948 to 27.10.1956
Area: Potchefstroom

Not recorded

FOREST HALL
Union to 03.10.1927
Renamed to The Crags
Area: Plettenberg Bay

1   1C "HALL" Name top and bottom

First seen:
15.03.1883
(Frescura)
Union 08.12.1925
(Frescura)
 

FORT BEAUFORT
Union to Republic

1   2C "Bars + cross" Name: 9-3 o'clock
Small typeface

First seen:
07.02.1903
(Frescura)
Union 13.01.1913
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" Name: 8-4 o'clock
Large typeface
06.10.1910
(Frescura)
08.06.1914
(Frescura)
 
       
3   2C "Bars + cross" Name: 8-4 o'clock
Large typeface
06.10.1910
(Frescura)
08.06.1914
(Frescura)
 
4   2C "Bars + cross"   Name: 8-4 o'clock
Round O
13.01.1915
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "S.AFRICA"   22.02.1917
(Putzel)
??.05.191?
(Aab)
 
6   1C "Blank" Skeleton 16.06.1919
(Aab)
14.07.1919
(Putzel)
 
7   2C-D "Bar"   Solid bar 29.06.1923
(Putzel)
   
8   2C-D "Blank"   32 mm 24.03.1930
(Putzel)
   
9   2C-D "Blank"   21.05.1935
(Aab)
03.06.1935
(Aab)
 
10   2C "S.AFRICA"     08.06.1935
(Putzel)
10.12.1939
(Aab)
 
       
11   2C-D "Blank"   32 mm
Large lettering

Last seen:
15.02.1963
(Putzel)
Union 194?
(Putzel)
 
12   2C "Blank"   04.08.1944
(Aab)
25.05.1959
(Aab)
 

FORT BROWN
Union to 27.03.1961
Area: Kokstad

1   1C "CGH"
Visser
First seen:
 29.03.1877
(Putzel)
Union 11.09.1916
(Visser)
 
2   2C "Blank"     24.02.1931
(Putzel)
1942
(Visser)
 

FORT EDWARD
Union to 01.05.1916
03.01.1920 to 07.03.1921
Area: Louis Trichardt

1   2C "Bars + ?"
Visser
  1920
(Visser)
   

FORT ENTOMBENI
25.12.1933 to 17.04.1957
Renamed to Fort Mtombeni
Area: Kranskop

1   2C "Blank"     17.04.1957
(Putzel)
   

FORT HARE
25.06.1944 to Republic
Area: Ciskei

1   2C "Blank" Last seen:
12.08.1977
(Putzel)
18.10.1949
(Aab)
Republic  

FORT HARRISON
01.11.1920 to 24.07.1922
Area: Transkei

Not recorded

FORT HILL
01
.11.1913 to 21.11.1921
Renamed from Main
Area: Transkei

Not recorded
Transvaal postmark known

FORT JACKSON (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: East London

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
08.10.1892
(Frescura)
Union 08.01.1924
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Blank"     1928
(Visser)
28.08.1932
(Putzel)
 
3 "/STA" 2C "Blank"     13.10.1950
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "Blank" /STA removed

Last seen:
28.12.1978
(Putzel)

(Aab)
Republic  
       

FORT LOUIS
Union to Republic
Area: Dundee

1   2C "Bars + cross"     22.10.1925
(Putzel)
   

FORT MISTAKE
16.06.1924 to Republic
Area: Ladysmith

1   2C "Blank" Last seen:
31.05.1978
(Putzel)
1952
(Visser)
Republic  

FORT MTOMBENI
17.04.1957 to Republic
Renamed from Fort Entembeni
Area: Kranskop
Still using Fort Entombeni in 1957

Not recorded

FORT STREET
18.04.1921 to 09.06.1924
Renamed to Bloemfontein Location
Area: Bloemfontein

Not recorded

FORTUNA (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Heidelburg

1   2C "R.O. First seen
10.07.1909
(Aab)
Union 14.07.1914
(S.Payne)
 

FORT WEBER
08.11.1937 to Republic
Area: ?

1   2C "Blank"     19.01.1959
(Putzel)
   

FORT YOLLAND
Union to 01.09.1912
01.01.1920 to 1926
Renamed from Impapala
Area: Zululand

Not recorded
Natal postmark known