Tea Cup Names, Official and Unofficial

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Hundreds of different patterns of fortune telling cups and saucers have been made over the years, and quite a few have been named by their makers. Sometimes different manufacturers re-used names that another maker had used -- or was still using. Some of the re-used names are mere coincidences, and some are deliberate attempts to defraud the public by illegally copying a title, type font, or images found on a competitor's divining cup.

Official Tea Cup Names

Official Tea Cup Names are those which are placed in the glaze at the pottery factory before firing or printed on the accompanying hang-tags, boxes, sales brochures, catalogues, booklets, pamphlets, or instruction sheets that accompany a specific style of tea leaf reading cup.

Unofficial Tea Cup Names

Unofficial Tea Cup Names are those bestowed by collectors, usually when referring to unmarked tea cups or to a class of cups that share a similar design feature. These names may be accompanied by the maker's name and/or a date, if doing so helps to distinguish like-named cups and saucers from one another. Since this is my museum, and, as far as i know, the only fortune telling tea cup museum in the world, the unofficial names found here are mostly my own devising.

Tea Cups Listed by Name

• Cards and Dice (1946) Ucagco
• Cup of Destiny (1926) The Zancigs
• Cup of Destiny (2001) Jane Lyle / Barnes and Noble
• Cup of Fortune (1904) Nelros / Aynsley To be remade as a category with 3 sub pages
• Cup of Fortune (1940) Hy-Hil Studio To be remade as a category with 2 sub pages
• Cup of Fortune (1964) Red Rose To be remade as Taylor and Kent (Red Rose was the customer) A category with 3 sub-pages)
• Cup of Fortune (1946) Ucagco
• Cup of Knowledge (1) Alfred Meakin
• Cup of Knowledge (2) Aynsley
• Cup of Knowledge (3) Bridgwood
• Cup of Knowledge (4) Booths
• Cup of Knowledge (5) Fairylite Foreign
• Cup of Knowledge (6) Jackson and Gosling
• Cup of Knowledge (7) Japan
• Cup of Knowledge (8) Made in in England / Unknown Maker (Wembley)
• Cup of Knowledge (9) Unmarked / Unknown Maker / Japanese Manufacture
• Fortune Teller Cup and Saucer (Knobler)
• Fortune Telling Tea Cup
• Fortune Teacup and Saucer
• Good Luck
• Gypsy Teacup
• Gypsy Teresa's Fortune Telling Cup
• Ian Messiter Fortune Teacup and Saucer
• Japan Marked with Crossed Laurel leaves
• Japan Marked H-B
• Heather Lee Harris / Treasures in a Teacup / Tea Leaf Reading Kit
• Kim Allen Psychic Cup
• Lipton's Royal Marigold Cup of Knowledge
• Meakin Royal Marigold Cup of Knowledge
• Morley House Tea Leaf Reading Tea Cup
• Mystic Teacup
• Psychic Cup
• Red Rose Cup of Fortune
• Romany Cup of Fortune (!935) Creative Arts
• Romany Fortune Telling Tea Cup (!935) Wilkinson
• Royal Marigold Cup of Knowledge
• Royal Doulton Swastika
• Taltos Fortune Telling Cup (1975) Jon Anton
• Taltos Fortune Telling Cup (1980) Royal Kendal
• Tasseography Cup / Old Tupton Ware
• Tea Leaf Reading Kitt / Treasures in a Teacup / Heather Lee Harris
• Treasures in a Teacup / Heather Lee Harris / Tea Leaf Reading Kit
• Wembley Marked Cups of Knowledge (Wembley moulds, 6 British makers)
• Wembley Unmarked Cups of Knowledge (Wembley moulds, 6 British makers)
• The Wimsatt Cup
• Unmarked / Unknown British Blue on Cream, 7 symbols on saucer
• Zarka Fortune Telling Teacup Set
• Zodiac (Ardalt-Lenwile)

See Also

• Tea Cup Makers and Markers
• Tea Cup Names, Official and Unofficial
• Tea Cups by Style of Divination
• Nations of Origin
• Specially-Marked Commemoratives
• Design Patents