I thought I would share some covers that I have collected over the past year or so. All three covers have the perfins AA on the stamps and the logo of the AA on the back of the envelope.
24 April 1959.
A letter from the Jersey AA office posted to Mr Roberts of British Railways, Gare Maritime, St.Malo, France.
The stamp used on the cover above was a 3d purple and when put in the post, the Post Office noticed that there was a shortfall in the cost of postage and a T in a circle was written on the envelope.
It then appears to have been taxed by a Foreign Service hand stamp with a manuscript number etc. It appears that when it arrived in St. Malo 2 x10 franc and 1x 20 franc Postage Due stamps were applied. There are no hand stamps on the back of the envelope.
This is a wonderful use of the posted out of course hand stamp with the registration label Jersey 18 No 0194. It appears that the correct postage of 1/6d was used, but maybe the envelope was posted in a post box and not through the proper channels, the cancellation was by machine slogan.
Some eagle eyed postman must have seen what was going on and applied the registration label and stamped the envelope with four strikes of the “POSTED OUT/ OF COURSE” marks
I do not know who or where the blue cross was applied, back and front There is a St. Malo single circle hand stamp on the back of the envelope.
15 March 1961
It appears that by this date the AA mail was being handled correctly, even applying an Air Mail sticker, AA perfin on stamp.
May I ask members to see if they have any mail from the AA to France in their collections and, if so, may I have details please?
Also can someone confirm whether there exists a list of perfins that have been used by Jersey/Guernsey Companies?
