Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup Postcards
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- | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Heart-Ring.jpg|center|400px|thumb|''"You are just entering upon a round of gaities, indicated by [a] heart standing by itself. The letter inviting you to be one of a happy house-party is now on its way, as shown by [a] leaf on the brim, and there is a ring here foretelling marriage."''<!The heart and ring are very clearly a proposal of marriage; the rectangle at the rim can indeed signify a letter, but there is no house visible in this view of the cup. Generally speaking, a house-party in the countryside, in the old Edwardian fashion, would be shown by a large house surmounted by or next o a tree. -->]] | + | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Heart-Ring.jpg|center|400px|thumb|''"You are just entering upon a round of gaities, indicated by [a] heart standing by itself. The letter inviting you to be one of a happy house-party is now on its way, as shown by [a] leaf on the brim, and there is a ring here foretelling marriage."''<!--The heart and ring are very clearly a proposal of marriage; the rectangle at the rim can indeed signify a letter, but there is no house visible in this view of the cup. Generally speaking, a house-party in the countryside, in the old Edwardian fashion, would be shown by a large house surmounted by or next o a tree. -->]] |
===10. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Ring and Triangle=== | ===10. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Ring and Triangle=== |
Revision as of 03:56, 26 December 2020
In this set of 12 postcards, issued in Great Britain some time between the First and Second World Wars, we have essentially a series of study cups as flash cards or teaching instructions in cup reading. These British tea leaf postcards were intended to be sent as greetings, but they can also be used by fledgling tasseomancers as study cups on the way to learning a basic list of tea leaf symbols.
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Journey, Leaves at Rim
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Little Dots
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Square with Three Dots
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Square with Dot at Side
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Rim, Broad Leaf Below
6. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Rim, Mountain, Three Dots in Line
Happy Married Life and Offer From Friend
7. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Mountain, Square with Dot
Promotion and Letter With Money or Good News
8. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Heart and Dots
Voyage Leading to Happy Marriage
9. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Heart, Ring, Leaves at Rim
10. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Ring and Triangle
Luck, Good News, Happy Marriage.
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Cat and Letter
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup -- Dog and Three Dots in a Line
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