Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup Postcards
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===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Journey, Leaves at Rim === | ===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Journey, Leaves at Rim === | ||
- | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Anchor-Leaves-Brim.jpg|center|400px|thumb|''"The leaves at the brim tell of letters with good news coming to you shortly. They will lead to the long voyage indicated by the line of dots, and the anchor at the bottom foretells [a] successful career abroad."''<!--The packet or leaves at the rim of the cup is interpreted as a letter, but in modern times, this could also be called a text or email. Journeys are shown in the form of "paths," "roadways" or "sea voyages," depending on other nearby signs. For example, the row of dots or dashes that symbolizes a journey, if seen with a tree or a flower, is a path if it is narrow and a roadway if it is broad, while a similar line of dots or dashes, if seen with a ship or a fish, is a river jvoyage is narrow and a sea voyage if it is broad. Here we have an anchor, which indicates a journey by water, and the line is long, indicating a journey abroad. ]] | + | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Anchor-Leaves-Brim.jpg|center|400px|thumb|''"The leaves at the brim tell of letters with good news coming to you shortly. They will lead to the long voyage indicated by the line of dots, and the anchor at the bottom foretells [a] successful career abroad."''<!--The packet or leaves at the rim of the cup is interpreted as a letter, but in modern times, this could also be called a text or email. Journeys are shown in the form of "paths," "roadways" or "sea voyages," depending on other nearby signs. For example, the row of dots or dashes that symbolizes a journey, if seen with a tree or a flower, is a path if it is narrow and a roadway if it is broad, while a similar line of dots or dashes, if seen with a ship or a fish, is a river jvoyage is narrow and a sea voyage if it is broad. Here we have an anchor, which indicates a journey by water, and the line is long, indicating a journey abroad.-->]] |
===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Little Dots=== | ===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Little Dots=== | ||
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===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Three Dots=== | ===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Three Dots=== | ||
- | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Anchor-Square-Three-Dots.jpg|center|400px|thumb|''"There is a letter here (long leaf on [the] brim | + | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Anchor-Square-Three-Dots.jpg|center|400px|thumb|''"There is a letter here (long leaf on [the] brim], with good news indeed. You have got your wish (three dots inside [a] square of four leaves), and a successful career ([the] anchor at [the] bottom is before you."'' A rectangle is a letter. A square can be an important letter or a package; three dots in a row is the "wish sign" that indicates your wish will come true;]] |
===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Dot at Side=== | ===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Dot at Side=== |
Revision as of 01:57, 27 December 2020
In this set of 12 postcards, issued in Great Britain some time between the First and Second World Wars, we have essentially a series of flash cards or teaching instructions in cup reading. These British tea leaf postcards were intended to be sent as greetings or distributed at a party, but they can also be used by fledgling tasseomancers as study cups on the way to learning a basic list of tea leaf symbols. Because the printed interpretations are so brief, i will, at a future time, add some further explanations of how they were derived.
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Journey, Leaves at Rim
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Little Dots
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Three Dots
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Dot at Side
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Rim, Broad Leaf Below
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Rim, Mountain, Three Dots in Line
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Mountain, Square with Dot
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Heart. Roadway, Dots
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Heart, Ring, Leaves at Rim
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Ring and Triangle
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Cat and Letter
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Dog and Three Dots in a Line
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