Fortune Telling Postcards by Bamforth

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A Bamforth comic postcard, circa 1930, showing the image of an approaching figure in the tea leaves
A Bamforth comic postcard, circa 1930, showing the image of a black cat in the tea leaves
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.

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