Aynsley Cup of Fortune Nelros

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The Nelros Cup of Fortune on the Aynsley Low Doris shape1
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END Low Doris Aynsley-Crown-England, 1905-1925
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The set of six Aynsley Cup of Fortune 2018 Commemorative Edition cups and saucers -- a total of seven new pages supported by my Patrons!

The Nelros Cup of Fortune, designed by Neville Ross, was a very early symbol cup plus astrology cup, first marketed in 1904. It was also the first to contain. Obviously inspired by the 1898 Fortuna Fortune Telling Tea Cup manufactured in the United States of America by John W. Hanley, it set the style for many derivative cups of later decades, particularly:

Although it came with its own very adequate instruction booklet, this cup set was both popular enough and unusual enough that it rated its own very chapter in Cicely Kent's book on tea leaf reading.

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