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Post Offices KERUMSPRUIT to KILIGAUGH

KERUMSPRUIT
01.03.1913 to 01.11.1914
Area: Kroonstad

Not recorded

KESTELL
Union to Republic
Area: Bethlehem

1   2C "Blank" ORC removed 23.06.1913
(Aab)
16.11.1921
(Putzel)
 
2   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 09.09.1924
(Putzel)
   
3   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm 02.04.1925
(Aab)
26.08.1931
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Bars + cross"   Thinner bars
Different cross

(Aab)
   
5   1C "Bars + cross"
Visser
Skeleton 1939
(Visser)
   
6   2C "Bars + cross" 27 mm
Open cross

(Putzel)
195?
(Aab)
 
7   2C "Bars + cross"   27 mm
Closed cross
1949
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "Bars + cross"   27 mm
Closed cross
Larger font
1958
(Putzel)
   

KESTELL ROAD (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to 31.12.1928
Renamed to Afrikaskop Rail
Area: Bethlehem

1   2C "Blank" ORC removed 31.07.1911
(Hamilton)
13.05.1922
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Blank"   Larger font
(Putzel)
   

KETHISAS
Area: Basutoland
Using Union stamps until 1931

See Basutoland

KETTING SIDING (STATION) (RAIL)
1911 to Republic
Area: Laingsburg

1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
  28.12.1912(Visser) 24.07.1935
(Frescura)
 
2 "/STA" 2C "Blank"   Station
(Putzel)
   

KEURBOOMSRIVIER (KEURBOOMS RIVER)
Union to Republic
Area: Plettenberg Bay

1   BONC "909" First seen:
07.08.1907
(Frescura)
Union 02.08.1911
(Frescura)
 
2   1C "RIVER" Name top and bottom

First seen:
10.12.1895
(Frescura)
Union 1923
(Frescura)
 
3   2C "Bar"   12.04.1944
(Aab)
11.02.1961
(Aab)
 
       
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 07.11.1952
(Putzel)
   

KEWDALE
11.10.1937 to 29.05.1944
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "JOHANNESBURG"
Visser
  24.11.1939
(Visser)
   

KEYLOCK
21.12.1925 to Republic
Area: Transkei

Not recorded
Republic postmark known

KEYSERS
01.08.1915 to 25.08.1958
Area: Uniondale

1   2C "Bars + cross"     1934
(Putzel)
   

KHARKHAMS
17.04.1950 to 1953
Renamed to Garagams
Area: Uniondale

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
  19.09.1952
(Visser)
   

KHAYAKHULU
28.04.1943 to ca. 1952
Renamed to Kayakulu
Area: Rustenburg

1   2C "Blank"   194?
(Visser)
12.06.1950
(Aab)
 

KHOSIS
Union to ca. 1950
Renamed to Ga-Tlose
Area: Kuruman

1   2C "Bars + cross"   25 mm
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
27 mm
(Visser)
   

KHWITIANENG
02.11.1959 to Republic
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal

1   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)
   

KIDD'S BEACH
01.10.1921 to Republic
Area: East London

1   2C "Blank"   16.04.1924
(Putzel)
29.03.1950
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Bar"
Visser
Relief 1959
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Blank" 30 mm

Last seen
10.05.1978
(Putzel)
27.07.1959
(Putzel)
Republic  

KIEPERSOL
01.08.1939 to Republic
Renamed from Nola
Area: White River

1   2C "Blank"  
(Putzel)
??.06.1942
(Aab)
 

KIESEL
07.11.1949 to Republic
Area: Thabazimbi

Not recorded
Republic postmark known

KIESERVILLE
1950 to Republic
Area: Lichtenburg

1   2C "Blank"   Last seen
31.12.1980
(Putzel)
21.07.1959
(Putzel)
Republic  

KIEWIETSKUIL
22.03.1948 to 24.04.1950
Renamed from Kivietskuil
Area: Aberdeen

Not recorded

KILDARE
Union to Republic
Area: East of Bloemfontein

1   2C "SOUTH AFRICA"   05.01.1935
(Aab)
05.02.1935
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Cross"   Last seen
12.01.1979
(Putzel)
195?
(Putzel)
Republic  

KILDWICK (RAIL)
1924 to 20.07.1925
Area: Mooi River

1   2C "Blank"
Visser
  06.09.1924
(Visser)
   

KILIGAUGH
01.07.1940 to Republic
Area: East Rand

1   2C "Blank"     29.01.1955
(Putzel)