Tea Company Cups and Saucers

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Lipton's Tea tin of sufficient size to contain an Alfred Meakin Royal Marigold cup and saucer.
"The Cup of Knowledge: The Tea of Good Fortune — Lipton's," the booklet accompanying the Alfred Meakin Royal Marigold Cup of Knowledge, front cover.
"The Cup of Knowledge: The Tea of Good Fortune — Lipton's," the booklet accompanying the Alfred Meakin Royal Marigold Cup of Knowledge, back cover.
Alfred Meakin Royal Marigold Cup of Knowledge sets with a Lipton Tea instruction booklet
Alfred Meakin Royal Marigold Cup of Knowledge with Lipton Tea pamphlet
Red Rose Cup of Fortune number 1 and instruction booklet
Red Rose Cup of Fortune backstamp on cup number 3

Fortune Telling Tea Cups from Tea Companies

Companies that trade in packaged tea have occasionally offered fortune telling tea cups as premiums with the purchase of their tea or have issued instructional booklets about tea leaf reading which were included in packages of tea. Lyons, the big player in the exterior signage "tea wars," did not indulge in metaphysics, but Lipton's, Red Rose, and others produced marked divination cups for readers or sold their marked cups with "tea included."

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