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Post Offices HOPE to HOUW HOEK

HOPE
02.05.1921 to 03.05.1952
Renamed to Afguns
Area: Vaalwater

1   2C "Bars + cross"   28.11.1945
(Putzel)
??.09.1951
(Aab)
 

HOPEFIELD
Union to Republic
Area: Malmesbury

1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
04.05.1903
(Frescura)
Union 08.12.1913
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Blank"
 
  27.11.1924
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Blank"   16.10.1926
(Putzel)
05.06.1936
(Aab)
 
4   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 1927
(Visser)
   
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 21.04.1939
(Putzel)
   
6   2C "Blank"   08.07.1941
(Aab)
18.08.1951
(Putzel)
 
7   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 20.10.1954
(Visser)
   
8   2C "Bars"   Relief 01.08.1959
(Putzel)
   

HOPETOWN
Union to Republic
Area: On the road between Britstown and Kimberley

1   2C "Bars + cross" 25 mm

First seen:
07.09.1903
(Aab)
Union 08.12.1913
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" 28 mm
Gap between
Hope and Town
11.09.1918
(Aab)
21.08.1935
(Aab)
 
3   2C "Blank"
Ian
Paterson
30 mm 12.12.1925
(Ian
Paterson)
12.05.1926
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Blank" 29 mm 22.10.1935
(Putzel)
09.10.1954
(Aab)
 
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1936?
(Putzel)
   
6   2C "Blank" 25 mm 29.04.1947
(Putzel)
03.08.1959
(Aab)
 

HOPEWELL
Union to Republic
Area: Cookhouse

1   1C "CGH"     09.02.1926
(Putzel)
   

HORNSKOP
01.10.1913 to 01.03.1915
Area: Germiston

Not recorded

HORSTFONTEIN
01.06.1920 to 29.01.1923
Renamed from Annierust
Area: Klerksdorp

Not recorded

HOTAZEL
04.05.1959 to Republic
Area: Kuruman

Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

HOTOMSKLOOF
1940 to 03.08.1942
Area: Oudtshoorn

Not recorded

HOT SPRINGS
01.04.1920 to Republic
Area: Uniondale

1   1C "Bar"   28.12.1931
(Aab)
31.01.1943
(Aab)
 

HOTTENTOTSKLOOF
Union to Republic
Area: Tulbagh

1   1C "CGH"   First seen:
27.01.1900

(Aab)
Union 22.08.1914
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Blank"   07.01.1937
(Putzel)
1947
(Visser)
 

HOTTENTOTS RIVER
28.03.1928 to 24.08.1931
Area: Fraserburg Road

Not recorded

HOUMOED
01.03.1920 to 01.11.1943
Area: Kakamas

1   1C "Bar"     11.11.1920
(Putzel)
20.04.1925
(Putzel)
 

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town

1   1C "Blank" First seen:
11.07.1885
(Putzel)
Union 31.10.1931
(Frescura)
 
2   2C-D "PARLEMENTSHUIS"   13.06.1925
(Aab)
05.06.1952
(Aab)
 

HOUTBAAI (HOUT BAY)
Union to 1914 or 1915
01.06.1916 to Republic
Area: Between Cape Town and Noordhoek

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
??.04.1898
(Putzel)
Union 25.03.1920
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross"   1934
(Putzel)
04.10.1949
(Putzel)
 
3 "HOUTBAAI" 2C "HOUT BAY"   Bilingual 07.09.1951
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "Blank" Houtbaai 18.03.1952
(Putzel)
02.08.1952
(Aab)
 

HOUTBOSDORP (HOUTBOSCHDORP)
Union to Republic
Area: Between Pietersburg and Tzaneen

1   2C "Asterisk" First seen
15.09.1905
(Aab)
Union 02.11.1940
(Putzel)
 

HOUTENBECK STATION
29.04.1935 to Republic
Area: Brandfort

1   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)
   

HOUTKOP STATION
24.12.1945 to Republic
Area: Vereeniging

1   2C "Blank"     25.04.1952
(Putzel)
   

HOUT KRAAL (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: De Aar

1   1C "Blank"
http://www.danica-janeckova.com
First seen:
07.02.1891

(Aab)
Union 20.06.1917
(Frescura)
 
2   1C "Bar"   05.09.1919
(Aab)
1934
(Putzel)
 

HOUTRIVIER
01.12.1924 to Republic
Area: Louis Trichardt

1   2C "Blank"     1933
(Putzel)
   

HOUTVOLOP
26.01.1925 to 22.11.1926
Area: Bloemhof

Not recorded

HOUWATER
Union to 1911
Area: Britstown

1   2C "Bars + cross"     29.06.1911
(Frescura)
   

HOUWHOEK
Union to Republic
Renamed to Houhoek
Area: Caledon

1   1C "HOEK" First seen:
04.02.1891
(Frescura)
Union 30.03.1926
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
08.09.1966
(Frescura)
29.10.1960(Putzel) Republic