The Museum of Fortune Telling Tea Cups and Saucers
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Revision as of 05:43, 4 August 2017
Welcome to the Museum of Fortune Telling Tea Cups and Saucers!
This online museum is an extention 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 number of divination cups, books about tasseomancy, and historical overviews of the designers and manufacturers of tea leaf readers' cups. your tea cup museum visit 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
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 tantalising list of Designers, Makers, Manufacturers, and Fortune Telling Tea Cup Names.
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
- Andrews McMeel Publishing
- 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.
- Kim Allen
- 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 and Kent
- Royal Doulton
- Royal Kendal
- Salem Witchcraft Museum / Knobler
- Taylor and Kent / Red Rose Tea
- Ucagco
- Unknown Maker / Made in England
- Unknown Maker / Made in in Japan
- Unmarked / England
- Unmarked / Japan
- Wilkinson
- Category:Willets Mfg. Co. / Fortuna / John W. Hanley
- Ye Olde English / Jackson and Gosling
- Zancigs / Anchor
TEA CUP NAMES, OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL
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 re-used names are mere coincidences, and some are deliberate attempts to defraud the public by illegally copying a itle, type font, or images found on a competitor's divining cup.
Official Tea Cup Names are those placed in the glaze the pottery before firing or printed on the accompanying hang-tags, boxes, sales brochures, catalogues, 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. These names may be accompanied by the maker's name and/or a date, if doing so helps to distibguish like-named cups and saucers from one another.
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