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Post Offices HERBERGFONTEIN to HET KRUIS

HERBERGFONTEIN
01.01.1914 to 01.10.1945
Area: Cedarville
1   2C "Blank"   33 mm 02.07.1932
(Putzel)		    

HERBERTSDALE
Union to Republic
Area: Mossel Bay
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
25.07.1892
(Frescura)		 Union 19.04.1918
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"   30 mm 1933
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"   30 mm

Last seen
22.08.1978
(Putzel)		 01.09.1935
(Putzel)		 Republic  

HERBERT'S PRIDE
18.05.1953 to Republic
Area: Transkei
Not recorded
Republic postmark known

HERBOUW
01.08.1911 to 12.11.1930
Renamed from Rhenosterkop
Area: Burgersdorp
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		 28 mm (Visser)    

HERCULES
01.10.1932 to Republic
Renamed from Daspoort
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "PRETORIA"   29 mm 23.09.1936
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank" Pretoria removed?
New disvovery		 03.11.1943
(Aab)		 20.08.1946
(Aab)		  

HEREFORD
23.03.1925 to 01.01.1956
Area: Groblersdal
1   2C "Blank"   1929
(Putzel)		 06.07.1943
(Aab)		  

HERMANNSBERG RAIL (HERMANNSBURG RAIL)
22.05.1915 to 01.10.1917
08.12.1924 to 23.02.1925
Renamed to Boscombe Rail (1916)
Renamed from Boscombe Rail (1924)
Renamed to Athens Rail (1925)
Area: ?
1   2C "Blank" HERMANNSBERG

SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date 

 22.05.1915
(Aab)		 ??.06.1915
(Visser)		  

HERMANSBURG
Union to 11.11.1946
06.06.1949 to Republic
Area: ?
1   1C "NATAL" First seen
 31.07.1884
(Aab)		 Union 04.11.1914
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank" 30 mm 24.10.1911
(Aab)		 05.12.1910
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Blank"   26 mm 17.08.1932
(Putzel)		 1950
(Putzel)		  

HERMANUS
Union to Republic
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
 25.08.1904
(Frescura)		 Union 1923
(Visser)		  
2   2C "S.AFRICA"   23.10.1914
(Aab)		 14.12.1933
(Aab)		  
3   1C "?"
 		 Skeleton ca. 1924
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Wide H and R		 06.03.1926
(Aab)		 07.01.1939
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Narrow H and R

Last seen
15.08.1978
(Putzel)		 05.02.1940
(Putzel)		 1954
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Blank"   30 mm 22.03.1951
(Putzel)		    
7   2C "Blank" 28 mm 07.11.1956
(Aab)		 04.12.1956
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Blank" 28 mm

Last seen
17.07.1978
(Putzel)		 17.08.1959
(Putzel)		 Republic  
9 "PAID-BETAALD" 2C "HERMANUS"   30 mm 14.09.1960
(Putzel)		    
10   PARCEL  
Visser		 Name between
 3 bars
(Visser)		    

HERMANUSDORINGS (HERMANUSDOORNS)
01.08.1914 to Republic
Area: Nylstroom
1   2C "Blank"   SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date 		 1930
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank"     195?
(Putzel)		    

HERMINA
30.06.1924 to 28.05.1945
04.03.1946 to Republic
Area: West Rand
1   2C "Bars + cross"     04.03.1935
(Putzel)		    

HERMITAGE
Union to 01.11.1910
Renamed to Emakabeleni
Area: Krantzkop
                 

HERMON (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Wellington
1   1C "Blank" 9 to 3 o'clock
Elongated O

First seen:
16.11.1904
(Aab)		 Union 18.12.1913
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" Long bars 12.10.1923
(Putzel)		 28.06.1933
(Ian
Pateson)		  
3   2C "Bars + cross"   Shorter bars 01.07.1937
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "Blank" Skeleton
New discovery		 01.12.1945
(Aab)		    

HEROLD
21.03.1932 to 00.00.1910
Renamed from Doornrivier
Area: Between George and Oudtshoorn
1   2C "Bars + cross"   27.11.1934
(Aab)		 13.12.1935
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 23.09.1932
(Visser)		    

HERONCLIFF
08.10.1928 to Republic
Area: Port Elizabeth
1   2C "Blank"     1933
(Putzel)		 11.01.1950
(Putzel)		  

HERSCHEL
Union to Republic
Area: Lady Grey
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
01.04.1881
(Frescura)		 Union 21.02.1914
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date 		 06.06.1919
(Aab)		 18.06.1951
(Putzel)		  

HERTZOG
Union to Republic
Area: Fort Beaufort
1   1C "Dot" First seen:
27.12.1896
(Frescura)		 Union 02.08.1916
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"   Last seen
02.07.1984
(Putzel)		 09.11.1938
(Putzel)		 Union to  
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 194?
(Putzel)		    

HERTZOGVILLE
01.11.1916 to Republic
Area: Christiana
1   2C "Blank"   Name level
with date		 23.09.1930
(Putzel)		 31.03.1933
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1933
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"

Name below
date		 30.10.1944
(Aab)		 o  
4   2C "Blank"

Name above
with date

Last seen
25.10.1978
(Putzel)		 11.01.1956
(Aab)		 Union  

HERZLIA
03.02.1958 to Republic
Area: Cape Town
Not recorded
Republic postmark known

HESSIE
27.06.1926 to 16.08.1954
Area: Wolmaransstad
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		   1927
(Visser)		 1934
(Visser)		  

HET KRUIS (RAIL)
01.07.1913 to Republic
Area: Piketberg
1 RAIL 2C "Bars + cross" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date 		 16.02.1912
(Putzel)		 194?
(Aab)		  
2   2C "S.AFRICA"   Last seen
16.08.1978
(Putzel)		 22.11.1958
(Putzel)		 Union to