On 23 January 1925, the Australian administration under the League of Nations mandate of the Territory of New Guinea issued the first stamp series for this entity, picturing an indigenous village formed by huts. These were the Kangaroo and Map series and the George V series. įrom January 1915 to 1925, stamps of Australia were used in New Guinea and Nauru, overprinted "NORTH WEST PACIFIC ISLANDS". It was sent to New Guinea, where it was overprinted in the same fashion as German New Guinea stamps and sold starting December 1914. Ī stock of the German Marshall Islands stamps was retrieved in Nauru, while the German postal authority were ordered to destroy it. The lower line carried the new denomination expressed in Australian currency: pence ("d.") and shillings ("s."). On the upper line, "G.R.I." for Georgius Rex Imperator in honour of George V, King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India. In October and December 1914, the remaining stocks of German colonial stamps were overprinted with two legends. In September 1914, at the beginning of World War I in Europe, Australian troops invaded German New Guinea. It is in 1901 that the first stamps were issued with the name of the colony printed on them, in the German colonial series, picturing the imperial yacht Hohenzollern. In 18, six stamps of Germany were overprinted with the name of the colony, printed in diagonal on two lines. The "DEUTSCH- / NEU-GUINEA" mention appeared in the middle of datestamps some years after, and there can be two or three stars. On the mail, they were cancelled with a round datestamp bearing the name of the town in the upper part and a five arm star in the lower. In German New Guinea, in the Bismarck Archipelago and the North Solomon Islands, the first German post offices opened in 1888 and used some stamps of the German Reich, issued between 18 (denomination in an oval or imperial eagle series).
Stamp of Germany overprinted for use in New Guinea, issued in 1897. Note: concerning the western part of the island of New Guinea or Irian Barat, see Postage stamps of Western New Guinea. Progressively, it obtained its philatelic and postal autonomy, and finally independence in September 1975. After the Territory of New Guinea became a League of Nations mandate entrusted to Australia, this country organised the postal system and philatelic production in New Guinea.Īfter the Japanese occupation of New Guinea and the suppression of civil administration in Papua at the beginning of 1942, the stamps of Australia were used between 19, before the two united territories got their own stamps. Consequently, to the Australian occupation in 1914, the remaining German colonial stamps and some Australian ones, were overprinted.
The colony got stamps bearing its name after 1897. In the North, New Guinea was under the control of the German Empire and used its stamps between 18. With the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia, the philatelic production and postal organisation were transferred to Australia and the stamps printed in Brisbane, then Melbourne. In the South, Papua, formally under British rule, used the stamps of Queensland between 18. The postage stamps and postal history of Papua New Guinea originated in the two colonial administrations on the eastern part of the island of New Guinea and continued until their eventual merger, followed by independence in 1975. Colonial division of the island of New Guinea, before 1914: in the West, the Dutch part in the North-East, the German part (pictured here without the Bismarck Archipelago) and in the South-East, the British one renamed Papua by the Australian government.
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