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[[File:Japan-cup-of-knowledge-green.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A Fairylite Foreign cup and saucer copy [[:Category:Made in Japan|made in Japan]]]]
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[[File:2022-02-14-Release-FTLOT-Fairylite-Foreign.jpg| left| thumb| 300px| Fairylite Foreign]]
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* '''[[:Category:Fairylite Foreign]]'''
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* '''[[Fairylite Foreign Cup of Knowledge Green Plain]]'''
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* '''[[B. Shackman Cup of Knowledge Green Plain]]'''
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* '''[[Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green]]'''
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==Fairylite Foreign Cup of Knowledge==
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[[File:Fairylite-Japan-cup-of-knowledge-green.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A Fairylite Foreign cup and saucer copy [[:Category:Made in Japan|made in Japan]]]]
[[File:Fairylite-cup-interior.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Interior of the Fairylite Foreign teacup]]
[[File:Fairylite-cup-interior.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Interior of the Fairylite Foreign teacup]]
[[File:Fairylite-japan-saucer.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Fairylite Foreign saucer]]
[[File:Fairylite-japan-saucer.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Fairylite Foreign saucer]]
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[[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] fortune telling tea cups were [[:Category:Made in Japan|made in Japan]] for export to Great Britain during the 1950s, and the pieces were marked "Foreign," to signify non-English origin. The [[:Category:Cup of Knowledge (6) Fairylite Foreign|Cup of Knowledge made by Fairylite]] was an illegal knock-off or patent infringement of the original [[:Category:Cup of Knowledge|Cup of Knowledge pattern]] from  [[:Category:Made in England|England]]. Specifically, this cup is a close copy of the [[Aynsley Cup of Knowledge Mint Green|Aynsley Mint Green Cup of Knowledge]].  
[[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] fortune telling tea cups were [[:Category:Made in Japan|made in Japan]] for export to Great Britain during the 1950s, and the pieces were marked "Foreign," to signify non-English origin. The [[:Category:Cup of Knowledge (6) Fairylite Foreign|Cup of Knowledge made by Fairylite]] was an illegal knock-off or patent infringement of the original [[:Category:Cup of Knowledge|Cup of Knowledge pattern]] from  [[:Category:Made in England|England]]. Specifically, this cup is a close copy of the [[Aynsley Cup of Knowledge Mint Green|Aynsley Mint Green Cup of Knowledge]].  
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Both the [[:Category:Cup of Knowledge (6) Fairylite Foreign|Fairlylite Mint Green Cup of Knowledget]] and the [[B. Shackman Cup of Knowledge Green Plain|B. Shackman Plain Green Cup of Knowledge]] were made at the same pottery [[:Category:Made in Japan|in Japan]] and were intended for export. They can be told apart because British law at the time required the "Foreign" backstamp under the glaze, while the United States, where  [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]] only insisted upon a paper label, and once the label the label was washed off,  there was no visible backstamp at all. Thus all of the sets marked "Fairlyite Foreign" went to Great Britain and all of those with paper labels, many of with now present as unmarked, went to the United States.  
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This [[:Category:Cup of Knowledge (7) Japan|Japanese Cup pf Knowledge]] is a [[:Category:Cartomancy Cups and Saucers|cartomancy cup]] that is, except for its packaging, virtually identical to the [[:Category:Unmarked|Unmarked]] and [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]] cup sets [[:Category:Made in Japan|Made in Japan]] suring the same era. It was manufactured by the same (as yet unidentified) [[:Category:Made in Japan|Japanese pottery]] that manufactured the [[Fairylite Foreign Cup of Knowledge Green Plain|Fairylite Foreign Cup of Knowledge Plain Green]] for export to England, with a copy of the [[:Category:Aynsley|Aynsley]] [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]]; the [[B. Shackman Cup of Knowledge Green Plain|B. Shackman Cup of Knowledge]], which was also accompanied by a copy of the [[:Category:Aynsley|Aynsley]] [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]]; and the [[Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green|Unmarked Green Japanese Cup of Knowledge]] that came with its own different and unique [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]].
Here's how to tell the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] set apart from others:
Here's how to tell the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] set apart from others:
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* Pieces are backstamped [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|"Fairylite Foreign"]] rather than [[:Category:Aynsley|"Aynsley"]] or being left with a paper backstamp or no backstamp.  
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* Pieces are backstamped [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|"Fairylite Foreign"]] rather than [[:Category:Aynsley|"Aynsley"]] or being left with a paper sticker or no backstamp.  British law at the time required the "Foreign" backstamp under the glaze, while the United States, where  [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]] only insisted upon a paper label, and once the label the label was washed off,  there was no visible backstamp at all. Thus all of the sets marked "Fairlyite Foreign" went to Great Britain and all of those with paper labels, many of with now present as unmarked, went to the United States.  
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* The colour of the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] and [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]] clay body is slightly greyish, typical of [[:Category:Made in Japan|Japanese]] ware, but unlike British bone china, which is a bright white.  
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* The colour of the [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]], [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]], and [[Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green|Unmarked Japanese Green Cup of Knowledge]] clay body is slightly greyish, typical of [[:Category:Made in Japan|Japanese]] ware, but unlike British bone china, which is a bright white.  
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* The quality of the transfers of the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] and and [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]] playing cards is muddier than the English originals, with a yellowish tinge inside the cards.
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* The quality of the transfers of the [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]], [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]], and [[Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green|Unmarked Japanese Green Cup of Knowledge]] playing cards is muddier than the English originals, with a yellowish tinge inside the cards.
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* Despite the attempt to closely copy a British tea cup shape, the feett of the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] and and [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]] cups areamusingly [[:Category:Made in Japan|Japanese]], in a classic six-petal scallop shape.  
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* Despite the attempt to closely copy a British tea cup shape, the feet of the [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]], [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] and [[Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green|Unmarked Japanese Green Cup of Knowledge]] cups are amusingly [[:Category:Made in Japan|Japanese]], in a classic six-petal scallop shape.  
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* The handle of the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] and the [[:Category:B. Shackman|Shackman]] cups are a simple Cshape with an inward curl; the [[:Category:Aynsley|Aynsley]] cup handle is in the more elaborate [[:Category:Doris|Doris]] pattern.
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* The handle of the [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]], [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] and [[Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green|Unmarked Japanese Green Cup of Knowledge]] cups are a simple C-shape with an inward curl; the [[:Category:Aynsley|Aynsley]] cup handle is in the more elaborate [[:Category:Doris|Doris]] pattern.
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* Although the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite Foreign Mint Green Cup of Knowledge]] has metallic gold pinstriping around the cup and saucer rims, the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] has a mustard-yellow pin-line around the center of the saucer. If it were an [[Aynsley Cup of Knowledge Mint Green]]|Aynsley Mint Green]] cup, that pin-line would also be gold.
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* Although the [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]], [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] and [[Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green|Unmarked Japanese Green Cup of Knowledge]] sets have metallic gold pin-striping around the cup and saucer rims, the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite]] has a mustard-yellow pin-line around the center of the saucer. If they were an [[Aynsley Cup of Knowledge Mint Green]]|Aynsley Mint Green]] cups, that pin-line would also be gold.
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* The [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]] of the [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]] and [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite Foreign Cup of Knowledge]] sets are straight-out copies of the [[:Category:Doris|Aynsley Cup of Knowledge]] [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]] of their era. They can  be told apart from the original because the [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]] [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]] reads "Tell Your Fortune in the Tea Leaves" at bottom center of the front cover, the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite Foreign]] has the words "Fairylite Foreign" printed at upper left on the front cover; and the  [Unmarked Made in Japan Cup of Knowledge Plain Green|Unmarked Japanese Green Cup of Knowledge]] has its own unique
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* The [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]] of the [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite Foreign Cup of Knowledge]] is a straight-out copy of the  [[:Category:Doris|Aynsley Cup of Knowledge]] [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]] of its era. It can only be told apart from the [[B. Shackman Cup of Knowledge Green Plain|Plain Green B. Shackman Cup of Knowledge]] [[:Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets|instruction booklet]], which was also [[{Category:Made in Japan]],because it has the words "Fairylite Foreign" printed at upper left on the front.
 
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Latest revision as of 23:19, 15 August 2022

Fairylite Foreign

My Patreon supporters paid for these 4 pages From the Land of Tea and had access to them one full year before the public did.

  • Patreon Release Date: February 14th, 2021
  • Public Release Date: February 14th, 2022.

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Fairylite Foreign Cup of Knowledge

A Fairylite Foreign cup and saucer copy made in Japan
Interior of the Fairylite Foreign teacup
Fairylite Foreign saucer
Fairylite Foreign backstamp
Original boxed set of Fairylite Foreign cup, saucer, and illegal copy of the Aynsley instruction booklet

Fairylite was a British importer of Asian-made novelties during the post World War Two era. They dealt in paper goods, playing cards, toys, and other small gift and game products. Depending on the nature of the merchandise, these items are either marked "Fairylite Foreign" or "Fairylite Empire Made."

Fairylite fortune telling tea cups were made in Japan for export to Great Britain during the 1950s, and the pieces were marked "Foreign," to signify non-English origin. The Cup of Knowledge made by Fairylite was an illegal knock-off or patent infringement of the original Cup of Knowledge pattern from England. Specifically, this cup is a close copy of the Aynsley Mint Green Cup of Knowledge.

This Japanese Cup pf Knowledge is a cartomancy cup that is, except for its packaging, virtually identical to the Unmarked and B. Shackman cup sets Made in Japan suring the same era. It was manufactured by the same (as yet unidentified) Japanese pottery that manufactured the Fairylite Foreign Cup of Knowledge Plain Green for export to England, with a copy of the Aynsley instruction booklet; the B. Shackman Cup of Knowledge, which was also accompanied by a copy of the Aynsley instruction booklet; and the Unmarked Green Japanese Cup of Knowledge that came with its own different and unique instruction booklet.

Here's how to tell the Fairylite set apart from others:

  • Pieces are backstamped "Fairylite Foreign" rather than "Aynsley" or being left with a paper sticker or no backstamp. British law at the time required the "Foreign" backstamp under the glaze, while the United States, where B. Shackman only insisted upon a paper label, and once the label the label was washed off, there was no visible backstamp at all. Thus all of the sets marked "Fairlyite Foreign" went to Great Britain and all of those with paper labels, many of with now present as unmarked, went to the United States.


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