Abbreviations used in the text and/or index of The Transvaal Philatelist
1966 to 2024
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| Abbreviations | |||||
| (14) | Indicates the distance in miles from a Class of postal office i.e. "14 miles" | ||||
| A | [Post Office] Agencies | ||||
| ABWPS | Anglo-Boer War Philatelic Society | ||||
| AGM | Annual General Meeting | ||||
| APOC | Army Post Office Corps. | ||||
| Art. | Article(s) [Law] | ||||
| APA | American Philatelic Association | ||||
| BPA | British Philatelic Association | ||||
| BPE | British Philatelic Exhibition | ||||
| BPF | British Philatelic Federation | ||||
| BO | Branch Office | ||||
| BONC | Barred Oval Numeral Canceller | ||||
| CGH | Cape of Good Hope | ||||
| cds | Circler date stamp or can be used for Double circler datestamp | ||||
| CSAR | Central South African Railways | ||||
| d. | penny (or pence) | ||||
| DLR | de la Rue or De La Rue | ||||
| ERI | Edward Rex Imperator | ||||
| FDC | First Day Cover | ||||
| GOM | Grand Old Man | ||||
| HAMPEX | Hampshire Federation Annual Meeting | ||||
| HMS | His Majesty’s Ship or Her Majesty’s Ship | ||||
| HPO | Head Post Office | ||||
| IMR | Imperial Military Railways | ||||
| Imperf. | Imperforate | ||||
| Ju. | Junior | ||||
| LSE | London School of Economics and Political Science | ||||
| MIDPEX | Midlands Philatelic Exhibition | ||||
| mm | millimetres | ||||
| MO | Money Order & Savings Bank Post Office | ||||
| MOO | Money Order Office (postwisselkantoor) | ||||
| M. W. Stroom | Marthinus Wesselstroom | ||||
| MTO | Money Order, Savings Bank, Post & Telegraph Office | ||||
| MtO | Money Order, Savings Bank, Post & Telephone Office | ||||
| MTtO | Money Order, Savings Bank, Post, Telegraph & Telephone Office | ||||
| NZASM | Nederlansche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatskappij | ||||
| OFS | Orange Free State | ||||
| OFSSC | Orange Free State Study Circle | ||||
| ORC | Orange River Colony | ||||
| oz | ounce | ||||
| PA | Postal Agency [As used in the PO Guide of 1902] | ||||
| PAK | Postagentskantoor (Post Office Agent) | ||||
| PBF | Postbus | ||||
| PF | Postal facilities were first provided | ||||
| PK | Postkantoor (Post Office) | ||||
| PMG | Postmaster General | ||||
| PO | Post Office | ||||
| POA | Postal Order Agency | ||||
| POTA | Postal Order & Telegraph Agency | ||||
| POtA | Postal Order & Telephone Agency | ||||
| POTtA | Postal Order, Telegraph & Telephone Agency | ||||
| PPR | Pretoria to Pietersburg Railway | ||||
| PTA | Post & Telegraph Agency | ||||
| PTS | Philatelic Traders’ Society | ||||
| PTT | Post telegraaf en telefoon | ||||
| PTta | Post, Telegraph & Telephone Agency | ||||
| Put | Ralph F. Putzel | ||||
| PWK | Postwisselkantoor (A Post Office which was authorised to sell Postal Orders) |
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| (R) | After a class of postal office indicates that it is situated at a Railway Station | ||||
| RMS | Royal Mail Steamer | ||||
| RO | Railway Office | ||||
| s | Shilling(s) | ||||
| SAP | S[outh] A[frican] Philatelist | ||||
| SAR | South African Republic (Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek) | ||||
| SAR | South African Railways | ||||
| SG | Stanley Gibbons or Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogues number(s) | ||||
| sic (sicut) | Latin term meaning: thus or just as that | ||||
| SO | Sub Post Office | ||||
| SS | Steamship | ||||
| TK | Telegraafkantoor | ||||
| TO | Telegraph Office only | ||||
| TP or TTP | The Transvaal Philatelist | ||||
| TPO | Travelling Post office | ||||
| TRK | Het Transvaalsche Roode Kruis, (Transvaal Red Cross) | ||||
| TSO | Town Sub-Office | ||||
| TSC | Transvaal Study Circle | ||||
| TtO | Telegraph & Telephone Office only | ||||
| TVL | Transvaal | ||||
| VR | Victoria Regina (Queen Victoria) | ||||
| VRI | Victoria Regina Imperatrix (Queen Victoria) | ||||
| UPU | Universal Postal Union | ||||
| WNLA | Witwatersrand Native Labour Association | ||||
| ZAR | Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic) | ||||
| ZASM | (Nederlansche) Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatskappij | ||||
| £ | Pound sterling | ||||
| /- | Shilling(s) | ||||
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