![BAA-230 : A22-4 [trade : UK] B.T. Ltd “Holiday Resorts” (1963) 8/25](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-01/12%20Southend.jpg?itok=vM9_fnm6)
B.T. Ltd advertised themselves as “The Tea Merchants” with “Deliveries throughout the North-West”. For some reason they are listed before Barratt in our reference books, right at the start, rather than taking the T as the second letter (that is probably the right place and it is me who is awry!) But the second question is why were they given an “A” code?
They issued ten sets, and all were issued by other companies. The most curious is “Wonders of the World”, which plainly states “A Series of 50” but only numbers 1 to 25 were ever issued; more curious still, this error is also shown on the sets by Badshah Tea (BAD-150), Browne Bros, Ltd of Southend-on-Sea, issued with Browne`s Tea (BRO-940), and Wilcocks and Wilcocks Ltd Tea of Exeter (WIL-100). Only Barratt (BAR-885 – 1962) and its companion Liam Devlin (DEV-220 - 1969) issued the whole set of fifty.