Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup Postcards
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===1. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Leaves at Rim, === | ===1. Your Fortune in a Tea-Cup - Anchor at Bottom, Leaves at Rim, === | ||
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Revision as of 03:53, 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.
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
catherine yronwode
curator, historian, and docent
The Mystic Tea Room
