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Post Offices KAIMANSGAT to KAMDEN

KAIMANSGAT
Union to 01.06.1920
07.03.1921 to 05.01.1931
Area: Steynsburg
Not recorded
C.G.H. postmark known

KAIMOETSLAAGTE
1953 to 12.11.1956
Area: Kenhardt
Not recorded

KAKAMAS
01.06.1911 to Republic
Renamed from Soetap
(CGH closed 1907)
Area: Orange Rive r near Upington
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
28.10.1904
(Putzel)		 28.10.1904 04.03.1918
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Bar"   23.11.1921
(Aab)		 1933
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Bars+ cross"   26 mm
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Bars+ cross" 30 mm 27.08.1941
(Aab)		 29.01.1947
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Cross"   04.12.1948
(Aab)		 10.09.1954
(Aab)		  
6   2C "Cross"   Longer name 10.12.1951
(Putzel)		    

KALABASFONTEIN
01.05.1917 to 06.06.1949
Area: Bethal
1   2C "Bars + cross" New discovery 19.12.1917
(Aab)		 1927
(Visser) 		  
       
2   2C "Blank"     17.08.1931
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank" Wider lettering 1940
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Cross"   04.12.1948
(Aab)		 10.09.1954
(Aab)		  

KALABASI
Union to 01.05.1950
Area: Newcastle
1   2C "Bars + cross"    
(Putzel)		    

KALABASKRAAL (RAIL) (STATION)
Union to Republic
Area: Malmesbury
1   1C "KRAAL"   Name top and bottom

First seen:
31.06.1883
(Putzel)		 Union 27.03.1913
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Blank" First seen:
02.02.1891
(Frescura)		 Union 1922
(Visser)		  
       
3 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"   17.03.1917
(Aab)		    
4   2C "Blank" 25 mm
(Putzel)		 11.08.1930
(Aab)		  
5   2C "5 3"
Visser		 Skelton 1953
(Visser)		    
6   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Skelton 22.06.1955
(Visser)		    
7   2C "Blank" 32 mm

Last seen
13.09.1978
(Putzel)		 03.10.1957
(Aab)		 Union  

KALAHARI
01.11.1920 to 1922
20.04.1923 to 07.03.1927
Area: Postmasburg
Not recorded

KALAHARIGRENS
25.06.1945 to 05.01.1959
Area: Olifantshoek
Not recorded

KALKBANK
Union to Republic
Area: Pietersburg
1   2C "Blank" Last seen:
08.04.1975
(Putzel)		 13.02.1915
(Aab)		 Republic  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skelton 20.08.1943
(Visser)		    

KALK BAY (KALKBAAI)
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   2C "Bars + cross"
First seen:
03.08.1904
(Frescura)
 		 Union 17.01.1912
(Aab)		  
2   2C "S.AFRICA" No dashes on sides 18.10.1921
(Aab)		 13.09.1928
(Aab)		  
3   2C "S.AFRICA" Dashes on sides 25.11.1919
(Aab)		 01.12.1934
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Bars + cross"     01.07.1944
(Putzel)		 1951
(Aab)		  
       
5   2C "KALKBAAI" Bi-lingual 12.05.1937
(Aab)		 17.10.1955
(Putzel)		  
6 "/BAAI" 2C "Blank"   Bi-lingual 23.04.1952
(Putzel)		    

KALKKRAAL
1919 to 01.10.1920
Area: Strydenburg
Not recorded

KALKMOND
21.10.1949 to Republic
Area: Kakamas
Not recorded
Republic postmark known

KALKOENKRAANS (KALKOENKRANTZ)
01.06.1911 to 20.09.1954
Area: Volksrust
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   ??.10.1914
(Aab)		 ??.06.1935
(Aab)		  
       

KALKPAN
01.07.1913 to 1942?
Renamed from Kareespruit
Area: Boshof
1   2C "S.AFRICA"    
(Putzel)		    

KALKSPRUIT
01.05.1913 to 1921
Area: Lichtenburg
1   2C "S.AFRICA"
Visser 		   25.06.1914
(Putzel)
(Visser)		  

KALKVLAKTE (STATION)
05.04.1948 to Republic
Area: Virginia
Not recorded

KALKVLEI
21.11.1927 to 10.07.1933
Area: Kakamas
1   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    

KALKWERF
12.07.1934 to Republic
Area: Upington
1   2C "Blank"     23.06.1950
(Putzel)		    

KALMOESFONTEIN
01.10.1917 to 11.10.1955
Area: Lydenburg
1   2C "Bars + cross"   25.??.192?
(Aab)		 11.08.19??
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    

KAMANASIE (DAM)
01.04.1920 to 08.04.1935
15.10.1945 to 24.03.1952
Area: Uniondale
1   1C "Bar"   Kamanasie Dam 05.06.192?
(Putzel)		    

KAMASTONE
Union to Republic
Area: Queenstown
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
03.05.1884
(Frescura)		 Union 18.01.1919
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
25.07.1977
(Putzel)		 20.01.1951
(Putzel)		 Republic  

KAMBERG
Union to 11.05.1954
Area: Mooi River
1   1C "NATAL" First seen
10.07.1901
(Aab)		 Union 13.01.1911
(Aab)		  

KAMBULA
19.09.1921 to ca. 1953
Renamed to Nkambule
Area: Vryheid
1   2C "Bars + cross"     14.12.1932
(Putzel)		    

KAMDEN
01.04.1914 to Republic
Area: Vryburg
1   2C "Blank"   SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 08.12.1931
(Putzel)