Fortune Telling Postcards by Bamforth
From Mystic Tea Room
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.
These comic British tea leaf postcards, some signed by the artist "A. Taylor," were intended to be sent as greetings, but they can also be used by fledgling tasseomancers as study cups on the way to learning a basic list of tea leaf symbols.
 A Bamforth comic postcard, circa 1930, showing the image of an old boot in the tea leaves. |
 A Bamforth comic postcard, circa 1930, showing the image of an arriving visitor |
 A Bamforth comic postcard, circa 1930,showing no tea leaf symbols but withing the rcipient luck |
 A Bamforth comic postcard, circa 1930, showing the image of a black cat in the tea leaves |
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room
