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Post Offices LAAIPLEK to LAFUTA

LAAIPLEK
31.01.1955 to Republic
Area: Velddrif
1   2C "Blank" 29 mm

Last seen:
20.09.1978
(Putzel)

 14.05.1956
(Putzel)		 Republic  

LAAISPRUIT
1921 to 1923
Area: Marquard
Not recorded

LABORATORY
1924 to 02.01.1930
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Blank"   26.06.1925
(Putzel)		 04.06.1929
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 1926
(Visser)		    
3   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1930
(Visser)		    
4   2C "PRETORIA
(PARCELS)"		    
(Visser)		    

LABUSRUS
25.06.1945 to 1955
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "?"     1953
(Visser)		    

LADANNA
12.06.1939 to Republic
Area: Pietersburg
1   2C "Bars + cross" 29 mm

Last seen:
07.08.1978
(Putzel)

 04.08.1943
(Aab)		 Republic  

LADISMITH
Union to Republic
1   1C "CAPE COLONY" First seen:
19.11.1891
(Frescura)		 Union 01.12.1911
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
20.06.1908
(Frescura)		 Union 24.03.1933
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "CAPE" S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date		 09.08.1920
(Aab)		 15.01.1921
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "CAPE"   28 mm 19.06.1923
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "CAPE" 31 mm
(Putzel)		 04.03.1933
(Aab)		  
6 "C-K" 2C "Blank"   28 mm
(Putzel)		    
7 "CAPE" 1C "Blank" |
|Bram Leeflang		 Skeleton
 

New discovery

 25.09.1941
(Bram
Leeflang)		    
8 "CAPE/KAAP" 2C "Blank" 27 mm

Last seen:
28.06.1970
(Putzel)

 12.02.1947
(Aab)		 Republic  
9   2C "C/K"     15.06.1960
(Putzel)		    
10 "(C/K)" 2C "PAID
BETAAL"		     26.03.1959
(Putzel)		    
11   PARCEL     LADISMITH CAPE
(Putzel)		    

LADYBRAND
Union to Republic
Area: Eastern OFS
1   2C "Blank" 26 mm

ORC removed		 23.09.1910
(Aab)		 1912
(Visser)		  
2   2C "Blank" 25 mm

ORC removed
Longer name
D touching date		 26.11.1910
(Aab)		 27.11.1911
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Bar" 28 mm 12.08.1913
(Putzel)		 03.02.1914
(Jan Bezuidenhout)		  
4   2C "S.AFRICA"   28 mm
dashes between
Name and
South Africa		 07.01.1915
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "SOUTH AFRICA" 27 mm 08.03.1917
(Aab)		 08.02.1924
(Putzel)		  
6   2C "Blank" 25 mm 09.09.1920
(Putzel)		 1931
(Putzel)		  
7   2C "Bar" 26 mm 1931
(Aab)		 12.08.1935
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Blank"   26 mm

Last seen:
28.06.1970
(Putzel)		 01.01.1940
(Putzel)		 Republic  
       
9   2C "Blank"
Visser		 27 mm
Wider letters
than number 8		 09.07.1951
(Visser)		    
10   2C "Bar"   Relief type 2 04.12.1959
(Putzel)		    
11   PARCEL  
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

LADY FRERE
Union to Republic
Area: 40 Km from Queenstown
1   2C "Bars + cross"   First seen:
27.10.1905
(Frescura)		 Union 11.06.1917
(Putzel)		  
       
2   2C "S.AFRICA" 26 mm 14.12.1916
(Putzel)		 03.09.1932
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank"   29 mm
10 to 2 o'clock		 1939
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Blank"   25 mm
9 to 3 o'clock		 1939
(Putzel)		    
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1947
(Putzel)		    
6   2C "Blank" 26 mm
9 to 3 o'clock		 24.07.1953
(Aab)		 26.11.1954
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Bar"   Thick bar
Relief		 20.04.1960
(Putzel)		    

LADY GREY
Union to Republic
Area: Aliwal North
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
24.12.1904
(Frescura)		 Union 11.06.1917
(Putzel)		  
       
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton 22.03.1919
(Aab)		 17.04.1919
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Bar"   17.05.1920
(Putzel)		 23.05.1922
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Blank"   25 mm 13.11.1923
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "S.AFRIKA"   18.09.1928
(Aab)		 1935
(Putzel)		  
6   2C "Blank" 29 mm
10 to 2 o'clock		 21.03.1939
(Aab)		 10.04.1951
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Blank"   28 mm
9 to 3 o'clock
(Putzel)		    
8   2C "Blank"   31 mm
9 to 3 o'clock		 10.02.1936
(Putzel)		 11.08.1950
(Putzel)		  
9   1C "52"   Skeleton 02.09.1952
(Putzel)		 28.09.1952
(Putzel)		  
10   2C "Bar"   Thin line
Relief		 05.10.1957
(Putzel)		    
11   2C "Blank"
Visser		 30 mm 13.03.1959
(Visser)		    

LADY GREY STATION
Union to 01.09.1925
Area: Aliwal North
1   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser		   25.07.1910
(Putzel		 01.09.1925
(Visser)		  

LADY SELBORNE
20.05.1935 to 30.03.1936
05.06.1939 to 05.04.1954
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Blank"   28 mm 21.12.1935
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank"   26 mm 1951
(Visser)		    

LADYSMITH
Union to Republic
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
Large letters
No time code

First seen
09.01.1900
(Aab)		 Union 25.03.1911
(Aab)		  
2   2C "NATAL" Blocks on sides

First seen
08.05.1910
(Aab)		 Union 01.08.1913
(Putzel)		  
3   1C "NATAL"   22 mm
Wide H		 19.08.1912
(Putzel)		    
4   1C "NATAL"   23 mm
Narrow H		 1915
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "NATAL" SOUTH
above date
AFRICA
below date		 19.11.1914
(Aab)		 21.02.1919
(Putzel)		  
6   2C "NATAL" 30 mm
Narrow H		 10.12.1918
(Putzel)		 17.03.1922
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Bar"   32 mm 10.12.1918
(Putzel)		    
8   2C "NATAL"   32 mm 11.08.1928
(Putzel)		    
9   2C "NATAL" 26 mm ??.07.1924
(Aab)		 30.10.1929
(Putzel)		  
10 "N" 2C "NATAL"   29 mm 1932
(Putzel)		    
11 "N" 2C "NATAL" 26 mm 13.09.1934
(Putzel)		 22.05.1935
(Aab)		  
12   2C "NATAL"   26 mm

9 to 3 o'clock		 23.01.1937
(Putzel)		    
13   2C "NATAL"   29 mm

9:30 to 2:30 o'clock
(Putzel)		    
14   2C "NATAL"   28 mm

Wide Y snd narrow D
(Putzel)		    
15   2C "Blank"   28 mm 18.02.1942
(Putzel)		    
16   2C "Blank"   31 mm
(Putzel)		    
17   2C "NATAL" 26 mm

9 to 3 o'clock		 15.05.1954
(Aab)		 1958
(Putzel)		  
18 "NATAL" 2C "Blank"   26 mm 29.02.1959
(Putzel)		    
19   2C "NATAL" 29 mm
Narrow A's in NATAL
Narrow H

Not reported by Putzel		 10.01.1956
(Aab)		    
20   2C "NATAL"   30 mm

Last seen:
03.02.1963
(Putzel)

 27.09.1958
(Putzel)		 Republic  
21   2C "NATAL" Index 3 on sides 02.06.1950
(Aab)		 23.09.1959
(Putzel)		  
22 "NATAL" 2C "3" Index 3 1956
(Aab)		 17.10.1957
(Putzel)		  
23 "(N)" 2C "5" Index 5

Last seen:
18.08.1978
(Putzel)

 21.12.196
(Aab)		 Republic  
24 "NATAL" 2C "PAID
S.AFRICA"		     24.04.1952
(Putzel)		    

LADYSMITH RAIL
10.06.1920 to 10.06.1942
1   2C "NATAL"   Using postmark
from Natal

First seen
27.12.1899
(Putzel)		 Union 10.06.1920
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "RAIL"     10.06.1942
(Visser)		    

LAER KAMNATIE
1933 to 05.05.1947
Renamed from Lower Kamnatie
Renamed to Onder Kamnassie
Area: Oudtshoorn
Not recorded

LAERSDRIF
1952 to Republic
Renamed from Lagersdrift
Area: Middelburg Transvaal
1   2C "Blank"   24.08.1953
(C. Vd Spuy)		    

LAFFNIESDAL
07.04.1952 to 30.01.1956
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		  
(Visser)		    

LAFKRANS
01.09.1915 to 19.02.1923
Area: Dordrecht
Not recorded

LAFRASNEK
29.08.1938 to 02.07.1951
Area: Memel, OFS
Not recorded

LAFUTA
Union to 1955
Renamed to Lufuta
Area: Transkei
1   2C "Bars + cross"  
(Putzel)		 1955
(Aab)