Fortune Telling Postcards by Bamforth

From Mystic Tea Room

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.

Although these comic British tea leaf postcards were intended to be sent as greetings, they can also be used by fledgling tasseomancers as study cups on the way to learning a basic list of tea leaf symbols.

catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room

See Also

• Tea Leaf Symbols in Art
• Tea Leaf Reading in Art
• Advertisements for Tea Leaf Reading Services
• Harry Roseland's Fortune Teller Art
• Tea Company Booklet Art
• The Ceylonese Tea-Plucker in Art