The Museum of Fortune Telling Tea Cups and Saucers
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'''Markers''' are distributors who engage the services of Makers and place their personal or company names in the glaze of the pottery before firing or who distribute the cups with their personal or company names printed on the accompanying hang-tags, boxes, sales brochures, booklets, pamphlets, or instruction sheets. | '''Markers''' are distributors who engage the services of Makers and place their personal or company names in the glaze of the pottery before firing or who distribute the cups with their personal or company names printed on the accompanying hang-tags, boxes, sales brochures, booklets, pamphlets, or instruction sheets. | ||
| - | * Category:Alfred Meakin|Alfred Meakin]] | + | * [[:Category:Alfred Meakin|Alfred Meakin]] |
| - | * Anchor / Zancigs | + | * [[:Anchor / Zancigs]] |
* [[:Category:Ardalt-Lenwile|Ardalt-Lenwile]] | * [[:Category:Ardalt-Lenwile|Ardalt-Lenwile]] | ||
* [[:Category:Aynsley|Aynsley]] | * [[:Category:Aynsley|Aynsley]] | ||
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* [[:Category:John W. Hanley / Fortuna / Willets Mfg. Co.|John W. Hanley / Fortuna / Willets Mfg. Co.]] | * [[:Category:John W. Hanley / Fortuna / Willets Mfg. Co.|John W. Hanley / Fortuna / Willets Mfg. Co.]] | ||
* [[:Category:Knobler / Salem Witchcraft Museum|Knobler / Salem Witchcraft Museum]] | * [[:Category:Knobler / Salem Witchcraft Museum|Knobler / Salem Witchcraft Museum]] | ||
| - | * Laurie Cabot | + | * [[:Category:Laurie Cabot|Laurie Cabot]] |
| - | * Lillian Vernon | + | * [[:Category:Lillian Vernon|Lillian Vernon]] |
| - | * Made in England / Unknown Maker | + | * [[:Category:Made in England / Unknown Maker|Made in England / Unknown Maker]] |
* [[:Category:Made in Japan|Made in Japan / Unknown Maker]] | * [[:Category:Made in Japan|Made in Japan / Unknown Maker]] | ||
| - | * Marguerite Scott | + | * [[:Category:Marguerite Scott|Marguerite Scott]] |
| - | * Maude Brundage / Petersyn | + | * [[:Category:Maude Brundage / Petersyn|Maude Brundage / Petersyn]] |
| - | * Morley House Direct Marketing | + | * [[:Category:Morley House Direct Marketing|Morley House Direct Marketing]] |
| - | * Napco | + | * [[:Category:Napco|Napco]] |
* [[:Category:Nelros|Nelros]] | * [[:Category:Nelros|Nelros]] | ||
* [[:Category:Nelros-Aynsley|Nelros-Aynsley]] | * [[:Category:Nelros-Aynsley|Nelros-Aynsley]] | ||
Revision as of 02:45, 1 August 2017
Welcome to the Museum!
The Museum of Fortune Telling Tea Cups and Saucers is building a gallery of detailed images of dozens of fortune teller's tea cups and saucers, including patent drawings for a number of divination cups, books about tasseomancy, and historical overviews of the designers and manufacturers of tea leaf readers' cups.
Until we upload all of our gallery pages, which will allow you to click on the name of any teacup maker or tea cup name to see more pictures of that cup and saucer and read about the set, you may peruse this tantalising list of Designers, Makers, Manufacturers, and Fortune Telling Tea Cup Names.
Let me begin with a disclaimer. The divination cups and saucers you will see here may -- or may not -- be for sale at this or any other time, so please do not contact me with inquiries about buying or selling tea cups. As a museum, this a place in which to enjoy some beautiful things and learn about their history. It is a virtual tour of a personal collection, accumulated over the course of 55 years ... and still on-growing.
TEA CUP MAKERS AND MARKERS
Makers are designers and pottery manufacturing companies; the term also includes those who have filed for and were granted fortune telling tea cup design patents for which no examples have yet been found, and who may not have actually ever manufactured the patented designs.
Markers are distributors who engage the services of Makers and place their personal or company names in the glaze of the pottery before firing or who distribute the cups with their personal or company names printed on the accompanying hang-tags, boxes, sales brochures, booklets, pamphlets, or instruction sheets.
- Alfred Meakin
- Anchor / Zancigs
- Ardalt-Lenwile
- Aynsley
- Aynsley-Nelros
- B. Shackman
- Barnes and Noble / Jane Lyle
- Booths
- Bradley Exclusives / Originality Plus
- Bridgwood
- Canonsburg Pottery (W. S. George)
- Cavitt-Shaw (W. S. George) / Creative Art Products
- Creative Art Products / Cavitt-Shaw (W. S. George)
- Crown Ducal
- Fairylite Foreign
- Florence Baxter / Petersyn
- Fortuna / John W. Hanley / Willets Mfg. Co.
- Genevieve Wimsatt
- H-B (Japan)
- Hy-Hil Studio
- Heather Lee Harris
- International Collector's Guild
- Jackson and Gosling / Ye Olde English
- J. and G. Meakin
- Jane Lyle / Barnes and Noble
- John W. Hanley / Fortuna / Willets Mfg. Co.
- Knobler / Salem Witchcraft Museum
- Laurie Cabot
- Lillian Vernon
- Made in England / Unknown Maker
- Made in Japan / Unknown Maker
- Marguerite Scott
- Maude Brundage / Petersyn
- Morley House Direct Marketing
- Napco
- Nelros
- Nelros-Aynsley
- Old Tupton Ware
- Originality Plus / Bradley Exclusives
- Paragon
- Petersyn / Florence Baxter / Maude Brundage
- Poole
- Red Rose Tea / Taylor Smith and Taylor
- Royal Doulton
- Royal Kendal
- Salem Witchcraft Museum / Knobler
- Taylor Smith and Taylor / Red Rose Tea
- Ucagco
- Unknown Maker / Made in in England
- Unknown Maker / Made in in Japan
- Unmarked / Unknown Maker / England
- Unmarked / Unknown Maker / Japan
- Wilkinson
- Willets Mfg. Co. [?] / Fortuna / John W. Hanley
- Ye Olde English / Jackson and Gosling
- Zancigs / Anchor
TEA CUP NAMES, OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL
Official Tea Cup Names are those placed in the glaze the pottery before firing or printed on the accompanying hang-tags, boxes, sales brochures, booklets, pamphlets, or instruction sheets.
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.
SPECIALLY MARKED COMMEMORATIVES
- British Empire Exhibition (Wembley) -- All Makers
- Coronation Commemoratives -- All Makers
- Dunedin Exhibition, New Zealand -- All Makers
- Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial -- Anchor / Zancigs
- Royal Visit Commemoratives -- All Makers
