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[[File:aynsley-1939-canada-royal-set.jpg|thumb|300px|right|1939 Royal Visit to Canada commemorative set]]

Commemorative fortune telling tea cups and saucers are a small but disctinct class of cups. In addition to being ornamented with indicators to be used in some form of cup divination, hey are also marked -- usually, but not always -- in the well of the saucer with some text that relates to a specific event. They are, in sort, souvenirs of the place and time that they were purchased, a well as functioning as tools of tasseomancy. 

In some -- but not all -- cases, the purchaser may have been able to aquire the same fortune telling cup, in terms of shape, ornamentation pattern, and tasseomantic images, both with and without the souvenir or commemorative text. This is particularly true of Aynsley cups made for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. 

* [[:Category:Wembley British Empire Exhibition|Wembley British Empire Exhibition]]  
* [[:Category:Dunedin Exhibition New Zealand|Dunedin Exhibition New Zealand]]
* [[:Category:Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial|Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial]]  
* [[:Category:Coronation and Royal Visit Commemoratives|Coronation and Royal Visit Commemoratives]]

<i><b>catherine yronwode</b><br>curator, historian, and docent
<br><b>The Mystic Tea Room</b></i>

==See Also==

* [[Tea Cup Makers and Markers]]
* [[Tea Cup Names, Official and Unofficial]]
* [[Types_of_Divination|Tea Cups by Style of Divination]]
* [[Nations of Origin]]
* [[Specially-Marked Commemoratives]]
* [[Design Patents]]