page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Papua New Guinea
section_title: New illustrated series of George V and George VI's reigns
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Papua New Guinea / In the south, Papua / New illustrated series of George V and George VI's reigns
caption_attribution_description: English: Papua 1941 1s6d airmail stamp in imprint block.
context_page_description: The postage stamps and postal history of Papua New Guinea were linked to the colonial administration on the eastern part of the island of New Guinea until its independence in 1975.
  In the South, Papua, formally under British rule, used the stamps of Queensland between 1885 and 1901. With the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia, the philatelic production and postal organisation were decided by an Australian administration and the stamps printed in Brisbane, then Melbourne.
  In the North, New Guinea was under the control of the German Empire and used its stamps between 1888 and 1897. The colony got stamps bearing its name after 1897. Consequently, to the Australian conquest in 1914, the remaining German colonial stamps and some Australian ones, were overprinted. 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.
  After 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 1945 and 1953, before the two united territories got their own stamps.
context_section_description: In 1932, to increase the colony's income, Administrator Hubert Murray ordered the issue of a new postage stamp series, chosen among projects and photographed proposed by colonial servants. Five unicolor stamps were created with drawings by E. Whitehouse. Inside an ornament by F.E. Williams, two drawings by Williams and nine photographs by Williams and Alfred Gibson gave birth to eleven bicolor stamps. On the sixteen stamps, the Papuan indigenous culture was pictured: a lakatoi, Papuans in traditional clothes, habitations and two identified persons (Steve Dagora, son of Oala, in a ceremony dress and who became a public servant; and Sergeant-Major Simoi, a policeman). Printed in intaglio in Melbourne, the series was issued on 14 November 1932. It helped gain more than ten thousands pounds of stamp sales for fiscal year 1932–1933, five times more than 1929–1930, the last year without any new issue.
  On 6 November 1934, the fifty years of the declaration of the British Protectorate were marked with four commemorative stamps designed by Frank Manley and engraved by Edward Broad. They were illustrated with two scenes of 6 June 1884: the Union Jack raised in Port Moresby and the meeting between Commodore Erskine of HMS Nelson and some New Guinean leaders.
  Alongside the territories of Nauru and New Guinea, British royal events provoked two issued in Papua. In July 1935, four stamps were reissued overprinted « HIS MAJESTY'S JUBILEE / 1910 1935 » for George V's Silver Jubilee. For the coronation of George VI, five denominations were issued in 1937 with the profile photographed by Bertram Park engraved by Frank Manley.
  Many stamps reprinted but not overprinted in 1935 were stored in Melbourne. They were finally put on sale in May 1938 at six General Post Offices throughout Australia to collectors who prepared their commemorative mail for the first regular airmail flight between New Guinea and Australia.
  A new colonial celebration was marked by a stamp issue on 5 September 1938: the fifty years of the possession of British New Guinea by the United Kingdom. Five airmail stamps were issued with a view of Port Moresby. A new airmail series was released on 6 September 1939 with a drawing by Edward Broad: two Papuans on their rafts overflown by a plane.
  At the beginning of the Pacific War, the Japanese occupation of Western New Guinea on the West and of the Territory of New Guinea on the North forced the suspension of civil administration in Papua on 12 February 1942. Even if the Australian Army's postal service used stamps of Papua at first, it quickly returned to stamps of Australia. The suppression of civil postal service rendered useless the reprints of 1932 stamps and of a 1 shilling 6 pence airmail stamp issued in January 1941 to follow the rate for a letter to the United Kingdom.
caption: An imprint block of Papua 1941 1s 6d airmail stamps.
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