Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup Postcards
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===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Little Dots=== | ===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Little Dots=== | ||
- | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Anchor-Dots.jpg|center|400px|thumb|''"The lucky sign of an anchor at the bottom of [the] cup foretells success in your profession, but the little dots behind it represent many worries through jealous rivals."''The anchor at the bottom of the cup tells of safety if one is a sailor, as many British men were during the era of these cards. However, if the sitter were female, one would be more likely to say, "Someone you know is a sailor and he will be perfectly safe at sea." The little dots trailing behind the anchor indicate coins or money gathered while engaged in travel. | + | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Anchor-Dots.jpg|center|400px|thumb|''"The lucky sign of an anchor at the bottom of [the] cup foretells success in your profession, but the little dots behind it represent many worries through jealous rivals."'']] |
+ | The anchor at the bottom of the cup tells of safety if one is a sailor, as many British men were during the era of these cards. However, if the sitter were female, one would be more likely to say, "Someone you know is a sailor and he will be perfectly safe at sea." The little dots trailing behind the anchor indicate coins or money gathered while engaged in travel. | ||
===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Three Dots=== | ===Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Square with Three Dots=== |
Revision as of 20:36, 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 flash cards or teaching instructions in cup reading. These British tea leaf postcards were intended to be sent as greetings or distributed at a party, but they can also be used by fledgling tasseomancers as study cups on the way to learning a basic list of tea leaf symbols. Because the printed interpretations are so brief, i will, at a future time, add some further explanations of how they were derived.
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Journey, Leaves at Rim
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Bottom, Little Dots
The anchor at the bottom of the cup tells of safety if one is a sailor, as many British men were during the era of these cards. However, if the sitter were female, one would be more likely to say, "Someone you know is a sailor and he will be perfectly safe at sea." The little dots trailing behind the anchor indicate coins or money gathered while engaged in travel.
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
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Anchor at Rim, Mountain, Three Dots in Line
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Mountain, Square with Dot
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Heart. Roadway, Dots
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Heart, Ring, Leaves at Rim
Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup! -- Ring and Triangle
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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