Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup Postcards
From Mystic Tea Room
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===8. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Heart and Dots=== | ===8. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Heart and Dots=== | ||
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===9. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Heart, Leaves at Rim, Ring=== | ===9. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Heart, Leaves at Rim, Ring=== | ||
+ | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Heart-Ring.jpg|center|400px|thumb|A Heart and a Ring foretell marriage]] | ||
Happy House Party and Marriage | Happy House Party and Marriage | ||
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+ | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Cat.jpg .jpg|center|400px|thumb|A cat signifies a rival]] | ||
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+ | ===12. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup -- Dog and Three Dots in a Line=== | ||
+ | [[File:Your-Fortune-In-A-Tea-Cup-Dog.jpg|center|400px|thumb|Dog and Three Dots in a Line -- Marriage Offer From Faithful Friend]] | ||
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+ | Marriage Offer from a Faithful Friend |
Revision as of 03:52, 25 December 2020
In this set of 12 postcards, issued in Autralia some time between the First and Second World Wars, we have essentially a set of flash cards or teaching instructions in cup reading.
Because the printed interpretations are so brief, i cave added some further explanations of how they were derived.
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room
1. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Leaves at Rim,
Long Voyage with Successful Career Abroad
2. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Little Dots
3. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Square with Three Dots
Letter With Good News, Successful Career
4. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Square with Dot at Side
Wish is Granted and Brilliant Future
5. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Rim, Broad Leaf Below
6. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Rim, Mountain, Three Dots in Line
Happy Married Life and Offer From Friend
7. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Mountain, Square with Dot
Promotion and Letter With Money or Good News
8. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Heart and Dots
Voyage Leading to Happy Marriage
9. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Heart, Leaves at Rim, Ring
Happy House Party and Marriage
11. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Cat and Letter
A rival, but a lucky letter brings promotion
12. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup -- Dog and Three Dots in a Line
Marriage Offer from a Faithful Friend