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| - | * Makers Markers PAGE NOT CAT (lists cats)
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| - | * Tea cup names PAGE NOT CAT (lists pages and cats)
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| - | * Types of Divination PAGE NOT CAT (lists cats)
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| - | * Design Patents PAGE NOT CAT(lists pages)
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| - | 4) Bibliography
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| - | 5) Gift Shop
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| - | ==TEA CUP MAKERS AND MARKERS==
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| - | Until we upload all of our gallery pages, which will allow you to click on the title of any teacup maker or tea cup name to see more pictures of that cup and saucer and read about the tea leaf reading set, you may peruse this tantalizing list of Designers, Makers, Manufacturers, and Fortune Telling Tea Cup Names.
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| - | '''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.
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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.
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| - | * [[:Category:Alfred Meakin|Alfred Meakin]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Andrews McMeel Publishing|Andrews McMeel Publishing]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Anchor|Anchor]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Ardalt-Lenwile|Ardalt-Lenwile]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Aynsley|Aynsley]]
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| - | * [[:Category:B. Shackman|B. Shackman]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Barnes and Noble|Barnes and Noble]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Booths|Booths]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Bradley Exclusives|Bradley Exclusives]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Bridgwood|Bridgwood]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Canonsburg|Canonsburg]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Cavitt-Shaw|Cavitt-Shaw]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Creative Art Products|Creative Art Products]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Crown Ducal|Crown Ducal]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Fairylite Foreign|Fairylite Foreign]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Florence Baxter|Florence Baxter]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Fortuna Cup Co./ John W. Hanley / Willets Mfg. Co.|Fortuna Cup. Co.]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Genevieve Wimsatt|Genevieve Wimsatt]]
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| - | * [[:Category:H-B|H-B]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Hy-Hil Studio|Hy-Hil Studio]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Heather Lee Harris|Heather Lee Harris]]
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| - | * [[:Category:International Collectors Guild|International Collectors Guild]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Jackson and Gosling|Jackson and Gosling]]
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| - | * [[:Category:J. and G. Meakin|J. and G. Meakin]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Jane Lyle|Jane Lyle]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Fortuna Cup Co./ John W. Hanley / Willets Mfg. Co.|John W. Hanley]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Kim Allen|Kim Allen]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Knobler|Knobler]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Laurie Cabot|Laurie Cabot]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Lillian Vernon|Lillian Vernon]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Made in England|Made in England / Unknown Maker]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Made in Japan|Made in Japan / Unknown Maker]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Marguerite Scott|Marguerite Scott]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Maude Brundage|Maude Brundage]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Morley House Direct Marketing|Morley House Direct Marketing]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Napco|Napco]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Nelros|Nelros]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Old Tupton Ware|Old Tupton Ware]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Originality Plus|Originality Plus]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Paragon|Paragon]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Petersyn|Petersyn]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Poole|Poole]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Red Rose Tea|Red Rose Tea]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Royal Doulton|Royal Doulton]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Royal Kendal|Royal Kendal]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Salem Witchcraft Museum|Salem Witchcraft Museum]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Taylor and Kent|Taylor and Kent]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Ucagco|Ucagco]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Made in England|Unknown Maker / Made in England]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Made in Japan|Unknown Maker / Made in in Japan]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Made in England|Unmarked / England]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Made in Japan|Unmarked / Japan]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Victorian Trading Co.|Victorian Trading Co.]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Wilkinson|Wilkinson]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Fortuna Cup Co./ John W. Hanley / Willets Mfg. Co.| Willets Mfg. Co.]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Zancigs|Zancigs]]
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| - | ==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.
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| - | '''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.
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| - | '''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.
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| - | * [[Cup_of_Destiny_%281926%29_The_Zancigs|Cup of Destiny (1926) The Zancigs]] A category with 2 sub-pages)
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| - | * [[Cup_of_Destiny_%282001%29_Jane_Lyle_/_Barnes_and_Noble|Cup of Destiny (2001) Jane Lyle / Barnes and Noble]] A category with 1 sub-page
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| - | * [[Cup of Fortune (1904) Nelros / Aynsley]] A category with three sub pages
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| - | * [[Cup of Fortune (1940) Hy-Hil Studio]] A category with two sub pages
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| - | * [[Cup_of_Fortune_%281964%29_Red_Rose|Cup of Fortune (1964) Red Rose]] remake this as Taylor and Kent (Red Rose was the customer) A category with three sub-pages)
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| - | * [[Cup_of_Knowledge_%281%29_Alfred_Meakin |Cup of Knowledge (1) Alfred Meakin]] A category with X number of sub pages
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| - | * [[Cup_of_Knowledge_%286%29_Jackson_and_Gosling_/_Ye_Olde_English |Cup of Knowledge (6) Jackson and Gosling / Ye Olde English ]] A category with X number of sub pages
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| - | * [[Cup_of_Knowledge_%288%29_Made_in_in_England_/_Unknown_Maker_%28Wembley%29|Cup of Knowledge (8) Made in in England / Unknown Maker (Wembley)]]
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| - | * [[Fortune_Teacup_%26_Saucer_%28Ian_Messiter_/_Poole%29|Fortune Teacup & Saucer (Ian Messiter / Poole)]]
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| - | * [[Fortune_Teller_Cup_and_Saucer_%28Knobler%29|Fortune Teller Cup and Saucer (Knobler)]]
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| - | * [[Fortune_Teller_Duo_%28Paragon%29|Fortune Teller Duo (Paragon)]]
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| - | * [[Fortune_Teller_Trio_%28Paragon%29|Fortune Teller Trio (Paragon)]]
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| - | * [[Fortune Telling Tea Cup]]
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| - | * [[Good_Luck|Good Luck]]
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| - | * [[Gypsy_Tea_Cup_%28Bradley_/_Originality_Plus%29|Gypsy Tea Cup (Bradley / Originality Plus)]]
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| - | * [[Gypsy Teresa's Fortune Telling Cup 7-Handle]]
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| - | * [[Cup of Knowledge (1) Alfred Meakin (Wembley and Royal Marigold / Liptons)|Lipton's Cup of Knowledge / Royal Marigold Cup of Knowledge]]
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| - | * [[Heather_Lee_Harris_/_Treasures_in_a_Teacup_/_Tea_Leaf_Reading_Kit|Heather|Lee Harris / Treasures in a Teacup / Tea Leaf Reading Kit]]
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| - | * [[Psychic_Cup|Kim Allen Psychic Cup]]
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| - | * [[Morley House Tea Leaf Reading Tea Cup|Morley House Tea Leaf Reading Tea Cup]]
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| - | * [[Mystic Teacup|Mystic Teacup]]
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| - | * [[Red_Rose_Cup_of_Fortune|Red Rose Cup of Fortune]]
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| - | * [[Romany_Cup_of_Fortune_%28!935%29_Creative_Arts_/_Cavitt-Shaw|Romany Cup of Fortune (!935) Creative Arts / Cavitt-Shaw]]
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| - | * [[Romany_Fortune_Telling_Cup_%28!935%29_Wilkinson|Romany Fortune Telling Tea Cup (!935) Wilkinson]]
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| - | * [[Taltos_Fortune_Telling_Cup_%281975%29_Jon_Anton|Taltos Fortune Telling Cup (1975) Jon Anton]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Wembley British Empire Exhibition|Wembley British Empire Exhibition]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Dunedin Exhibition New Zealand|Dunedin Exhibition New Zealand]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial|Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial]]
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| - | * [[:Category:Coronation and Royal Visit Commemoratives|Coronation and Royal Visit Commemoratives]]
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This online museum is an extension of a real, physical museum that houses hundreds of fortune telling cups from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. More than just a colourful gallery of detailed images of dozens of fortune teller's tea cups and saucers, this museum also houses factual information about tea leaf reading cups, including patent drawings for a divination cups, instructional pamphlets that accompanied divination cup and saucer sets, books about tasseomancy, and historical overviews of the designers and manufacturers of tea leaf readers' cups.
Please begin your visit to my tea cup museum visit with this 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 fortune teller's 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 my own personal collection, accumulated over the course of 55 years ... and still on-growing.
