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 (2001) Jane Lyle / Barnes and Noble To be remade as a category with 1 sub-page
- Cup of Fortune (1904) Nelros / Aynsley To be remade as a category with 3 sub pages
- Cup of Fortune (1940) Hy-Hil Studio To be remade as a category with 2 sub pages
- Cup of Fortune (1964) Red Rose To be remade as Taylor and Kent (Red Rose was the customer) A category with 3 sub-pages)
See Also
- Tea Cup Makers and Markers
- Tea Cup Names, Official and Unofficial
- Tea Cups by Style of Divination
- Nations of Origin
- Commemoratives
- Design Patents