Tea Cup Names, Official and Unofficial
From Mystic Tea Room
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 of the re-used names are mere coincidences, and some are deliberate attempts to defraud the public by illegally copying a title, type font, or images found on a competitor's divining cup.
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Official Tea Cup Names
Official Tea Cup Names are those which are placed in the glaze at the pottery factory before firing or printed on the accompanying hang-tags, boxes, sales brochures, catalogues, booklets, pamphlets, or instruction sheets that accompany a specific style of tea leaf reading cup.
Unofficial Tea Cup Names
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 distinguish like-named cups and saucers from one another. Since this is my museum, and, as far as i know, the only fortune telling tea cup museum in the world, the unofficial names found here are mostly my own devising.
Tea Cups Listed by Name
- Cup of Destiny (1926) The Zancigs A category with 2 sub-pages)
- Cup of Destiny (2001) Jane Lyle / Barnes and Noble A category with 1 sub-page
- Cup of Fortune (1904) Nelros / Aynsley A category with three sub pages
- Cup of Fortune (1940) Hy-Hil Studio A category with two sub pages
- Cup of Fortune (1964) Red Rose remake this as Taylor and Kent (Red Rose was the customer) A category with three sub-pages)
- Cup of Fortune (1946) Ucagco A category with X number of sub pages
- Cup of Knowledge (1) Alfred Meakin A category with X number of sub pages
- Cup of Knowledge (2) Aynsley A category with X number of sub pages
- Cup of Knowledge (3) Bridgwood A category with X number of sub pages
- Cup of Knowledge (4) Booths A category with X number of sub pages
- Cup of Knowledge (5) Fairylite Foreign A page -- 1 cup
- Cup of Knowledge (6) Jackson and Gosling / Ye Olde English A category with X number of sub pages
- Cup of Knowledge (7) Japan A page -- 1 cup
- Category:Astrology Cups and Saucers
- Category:Cartomancy Cups and Saucers
- Category:Commemorative Cups and Saucers
- Coronation and Royal Visit Commemoratives
- Cup of Destiny
- Cup of Fortune
- Cup of Knowledge (2) Aynsley
- Cup of Knowledge (3) Bridgwood
- Cup of Knowledge (7) Japan
- Cup of Knowledge
- Category:Fortuna Cup Co./ John W. Hanley / Willets Mfg. Co.
- Willets Mfg. Co.
- Fortuna Cup. Co.
- John W. Hanley
- Fortune Telling Cup
- Category:Numerology Cups and Saucers
- Poetry on Cups and Saucers
- Self-Reading Cups and Saucers
- Category:Symbol Cups and Saucers
- Tea
- Category:Tea Leaf Reading Instruction Sheets and Booklets
- Wembley British Empire Exhibition
See Also
- Tea Cups by Maker
- Tea Cups by Name
- Tea Cups by Style
- Nations of Origin
- Commemoratives
- Design Patents