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Revision as of 21:52, 14 February 2021

From the Land of Tea, Installment #2

February 14th, 2021

In the Second installment of "From the Land of Tea," we take sneak-peek look at upcoming pages that will eventually be on display at the Mystic Tea Room web site. As a Patreon supporter, you have access to these page one full year before the public does. Brief teaser for these pages are available to the public here:

• B. Shackman Cup of Knowledge Green Plain
• Fairylite Foreign Cup of Knowledge Green Plain
• Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green

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Next week's Patreon Preview Page will be ready on February 21st, 2021. The links will be available to Patrons who have subscribed at Tier 3 (The Reader) and above. The Topic will be Your Wate and Fate.

Today we are going to look at an unusual fortune telling teacup used in the practice of tasseomancy. the Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green.

This Japan Cup of Knowledge saucer bottom is unmarked; it may have had a foil tag or paper sticker that was lost

Instruction book for this Cup of Knowledge

This Unmarked Cup of Knowledge that was made in Japan is a generic, unauthorized knock-off of the Aynsley Cup of Knowledge was, like many others, made in Japan. It is a cartomancy cup that is, except for its packaging, virtually identical to the green Japanese Fairylite Foreign and B. Shackman cups of the same era. It came with a booklet titled "The Cup of Knowledge: A Fascinating and Exciting Pastime: How to Read the Tea Leaves."

If the booklet is lost or the stickers come off, this becomes an Unmarked Cup of Knowledge that was made in Japan. It is then indistinguishable from a B. Shackman Cup of Knowledge that has lost its back stickers. It can, however, be distinguished from a Fairylite Foreign Cup of knowledge, because the Fairylite Foreign mark is a regular underglaze iron-red backstamp.

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catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room

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