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Post Offices KOMAAN to KOOTJIESKOLK STATION

KOMAAN
29.03.1943 to 05.12.1960
Area: Port Nolloth

1   2C "Bars + cross"     23.02.1952
(Putzel)
   

KOMAGGAS
Union to Republic
Area: Springbok

1   1C "Dot" First seen:
11.11.1888
(Putzel)
Union 06.08.1924
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Blank"     21.02.1951
(Putzel)
22.10.1952
(Putzel)
 

KOMATIEPOORT  (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: On the Mocambique border

1 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"   ??.08.1914
(Putzel)
25.11.1919
(Aab)
 
2   1C "Blank"     28.01.1921
(Putzel)
   
3   1C "Bar"     1923
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "Blank" 25 mm
(Putzel)
01.01.1934
(Aab)
 
5   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton
(Visser)
   
6   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 30.12.1948
(Visser)
1949
(Visser
 
7   2C "Blank"
Visser
29 mm
(Visser)
   
8   2C-D "Line"
Visser
  1941
(Visser)
1942
(Visser)
 

KOMGA (KOMGHA) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Komga

1   1C "Blank" Name 10 to 2 o'clock

First seen:
27.07.1887
(Aab)
Union 26.11.1922
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross" Frescura reports
2 types
Long bar

First seen:

01.12.1902

(Aab)
Union 05.06.1924
(Frescura)
 
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1925
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "Bars + cross" 25 mm 26.01.1926
(Putzel)
08.11.1949
(Aab)
 
5   2C "Cross" Last seen:
21.04.1978
(Putzel)
195?
(Aab)
Republic  

KOMKANS
October 1916 to Republic
Area: Klawer

Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

KOMMADAGGA
1953 to Republic
Area: Somerset East

Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

KOMMANDODRIF
1953 to Republic
Renamed from Commandodrift
Area: Hoopstad

Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

KOMMANDOKRAAL
15.10.1945 to Republic
Renamed from Commandokraal
Area: Uniondale

Not recorded

KOMMANDONEK
29.08.1938 to 25.02.1956
Area: Ficksburg

1   2C "Blank"   28 mm 194?
(Putzel)
   

KOMMETJIE
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town

1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
10.11.1908
(Frescura)
Union 10.08.1943
(Frescura)
 

KOMMISSIEDRIF(T)
1953 to 26.09.1955
Renamed from Commissdrift
Area: Rustenburg

Not recorded

KOMMISSIEPOORT
1953 to Republic
Renamed from Commissiepoort
Area: Ladybrand

1   2C "Blank" 30 mm 1956
(Aab)
Republic  

KOMO
24.01.1938 to 16.04.1945
Renamed from Impala
Area: Zululand

1   2C "Bars + cross"   28 mm 05.06.1939
(Putzel)
   

KOMPANJIESDRIF
1953 to 16.04.1956
Renamed from Companjiesdrift
Area: Joubertina

Not recorded

KOMPLAAS
31.10.1938 to 02.12.1946
Area: Willowmore

Not recorded

KOMSPRUIT RAIL
27.06.1927 toRepublic
Area: Kroonstad

1 "RAIL" 2C "Bars + cross"   26 mm 25.03.1928
(Putzel)
   
2 "/STA" 2C "Blank"
Visser
26 mm 22.12.1944
(Visser)
   

KONGOLANA
Union to 01.05.1912
18.05.1925 to 16.09.1927
Area: Vryheid

Not recorded
Natal postmark known

KONSTABEL STATION
1953 to Republic
Renamed from Constable Station
Area: Touwsrivier

Not recorded

KONYELE
21.06.1937 to 05.10.1953
Area: Kokstad

1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
26 mm 1943
(Visser)
   

KOO
01.02.1918 to 1952
20.04.1954 to Republic
Renamed from Concordia (Montagu)
Area: Montagu

Not recorded
Republic postmark known

KOOKRUS
03.02.1947 to
Republic
Area: Vereeniging

1   2C "Bars + cross"   25 mm 30.07.1954
(Putzel)
   

KOONAP
Union to 12.04.1954
Area: Fort Beaufort

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
20.04.1893

(Aab)
Union 06.07.1913
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
  02.11.194?
(Visser)
   

KOOPMANSFONTEIN
Union to Republic
Area: Barkly West

1   1C "CGH" First seen:
05.03.1903
(Frescura)
Union 29.04.1913
(Frescura)
 
2   2C "Blank" S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date
1928
(Putzel)

(Aab)
 
3   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 27.06.1933
(Visser)
   
4   2C "Blank"   31.01.1947
(Aab)
04.10.1949
(Putzel)
 

KOORNPLAATS
01.12.1916 to ca. 1952
Renamed to Koringplaas
Area: Laingsburg

1   2C "Blank"   25 mm 14.04.193?
(Putzel)
   

KOORNPUNT
Union to 1958
Renamed to Koringpunt
(Although renamed in 1952 still using old postmark until 1958)
Area: Potgietersrust

1   2C "TRANSVAAL"     05.10.1910
(Putzel)
   
2   2C "Blank"   25 mm 09.05.1952
(Putzel)
1958
(Putzel)
 

KOOSFONTEIN
01.02.1912 to Republic
Area: Bloemhof

1   2C "S.AFRICA"     09.03.1931
(Putzel)
14.08.1941
(Putzel)
 

KOOTJIESKOLK STATION
1956 to Republic
Renamed from Kotjeskolk
Area: Calvinia

Not recorded
Republic postmark known