The Fortune Cup

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	[[File:Johnson-Fortune-Cup-Saucer-Side.jpg |thumb|300px|right|The Fortune Cup, copyright 1965 Verna A. and John W. Meredith, Snowhite Regency [[:Category:Made in England|Made in England]] by [[:Category:Johnson Brothers|Johnson Brothers]] Ironstone; side view]]		[[File:Johnson-Fortune-Cup-Saucer-Side.jpg |thumb|300px|right|The Fortune Cup, copyright 1965 Verna A. and John W. Meredith, Snowhite Regency [[:Category:Made in England|Made in England]] by [[:Category:Johnson Brothers|Johnson Brothers]] Ironstone; side view]]
	[[File:Johnson-Fortune-Cup-Interior.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Fortune Cup, copyright 1965 Verna A. and John W. Meredith, Snowhite Regency [[:Category:Made in England|Made in England]] by [[:Category:Johnson Brothers|Johnson Brothers]] Ironstone; interior view view]]		[[File:Johnson-Fortune-Cup-Interior.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Fortune Cup, copyright 1965 Verna A. and John W. Meredith, Snowhite Regency [[:Category:Made in England|Made in England]] by [[:Category:Johnson Brothers|Johnson Brothers]] Ironstone; interior view view]]
-	[[File:Johnson-Fortune-Cup-Center-1965.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Fortune Cup, center of the cup, showing the handwritten copyright notice "1965 Verna A. and John W. Meredith," in the glaze]	+	[[File:Johnson-Fortune-Cup-Center-1965.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Fortune Cup, center of the cup, showing the handwritten copyright notice "1965 Verna A. and John W. Meredith," in the glaze]]
	[[File:Verna-A-Meredith-John-W-Meredith-The-Fortune-Cup-Copyright-May-12-1965.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Caption]]		[[File:Verna-A-Meredith-John-W-Meredith-The-Fortune-Cup-Copyright-May-12-1965.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Caption]]
	[[File:Johnson-Fortune-Cup-Backstamp.jpg|thumb|300px|right||The Fortune Cup, backstamp, Snowhite Regency [[:Category:Made in England|Made in England]] by [[:Category:Johnson Brothers|Johnson Brothers]] Ironstone		[[File:Johnson-Fortune-Cup-Backstamp.jpg|thumb|300px|right||The Fortune Cup, backstamp, Snowhite Regency [[:Category:Made in England|Made in England]] by [[:Category:Johnson Brothers|Johnson Brothers]] Ironstone

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pottery and was not marketed by them. Instead -- like the Zanzig's Zodiac shop cup, made by the Anchor Pottery; the Wimsatt Cup, made by the Canonsburg Pottery; and the XXX Romany cup, made by Cavitt-Shaw -- this was a custom job, designed by, and delivered to, a small home-based company -- in this case, Verna A. and John W. Meredith.

I have not found any newspaper or magazine ads for The Fortune by this husband and wife team, but they were definitely American, not British, because they took out an American copyright on "The Fortune Cup" name and a drawing in 1965, which was subtitled "Cross of Playing Cards."

The copyright notice reads as follows:

MEREDITH, JOHN W.
The fortune cup. See MEREDITH, VERNA A.

MEREDITH, VERNA A.
The fortune cup. [Cross of playing cards] Drawing. © Verna A. & John W. Meredith; 12 May 65; GU3863O.