Fortune Telling Postcards by Bamforth
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[[File:Bamforth-tea-leaf-fortune-have-a-cup-1930.jpg|300px|right|thumb|A Bamforth comic postcard, circa 1930, showing the image of an arriving visitor]] | [[File:Bamforth-tea-leaf-fortune-have-a-cup-1930.jpg|300px|right|thumb|A Bamforth comic postcard, circa 1930, showing the image of an arriving visitor]] | ||
- | Bamforth was a popular British publisher of comic postcards. Some of them deal with the vagaries of fortune telling, and some specifically skewer the symbology of taseeomancy or tea leaf reading. | + | Bamforth was a popular British publisher of comic postcards. Some of them deal with the vagaries of fortune telling, and some specifically skewer the symbology of taseeomancy or tea leaf reading. Although they were not pubished as such, Bamforth tea cup postcards can also be used as study cups. |
<i><b>catherine yronwode</b><br>curator, historian, and docent | <i><b>catherine yronwode</b><br>curator, historian, and docent |
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Bamforth was a popular British publisher of comic postcards. Some of them deal with the vagaries of fortune telling, and some specifically skewer the symbology of taseeomancy or tea leaf reading. Although they were not pubished as such, Bamforth tea cup postcards can also be used as study cups.
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room