Fortune Collection

Palmistry map of the hand
A palmistry map of the hand, labelling the different areas

Tarot Card 18 - La Lune (The Moon)
The Moon, as depicted on a Tarot card

Selection of tarot cards from traditional Marseille pack
A selection of tarot cards from the traditional Marseille pack. (1 of 2)

Tarot Card 19 - Le Soleil (The Sun)
The Sun, as depicted on a Tarot card

Writing / Shorthand Pitman
Shorthand writing: an example of Pitmans system, boasting that Fortune magazine has gained over 100, 000 subscribers in five short years

Selection of tarot cards from traditional Marseille pack
A selection of tarot cards from the traditional Marseille pack. (2 of 2)

Tarot Card 19 - Le Soleil (The Sun)

Gypsy Lee, the fortune teller
Sketches of Gypsy life: a camp near Latimer Road near Notting Hill showing Gypsy Lee, the fortune teller at the Devils Dyke

Hermes Trismegistus
The messenger of the gods, but here as HERMES TRISMEGISTUS (= thrice-greatest), perceived by Neoplatonists as the presiding deity of alchemy, possessing magical and oracular powers

The Ladder of Fortune. Industry and Morality bring solid rewards. Idle schemes and speculations yield poverty and ruin. Date: 1875

Tarot Card 22 - Le Fou (The Fool)
Tarot Card 22 - Le Fou or Le Mat (The Fool)

Suffragette Demonstration Rally Hyde Park
The Great Suffragette Demonstration held on 23rd July 1910. banners held aloft include Fortune Favours The Brave, Arise Go Forth & Conquer and the Emmeline Pankhurst banner. Date: 23rd July 1910

Fra Angelico (1387-1455). The Coronation of the Virgin
Fra Angelico (1387-1455). Tuscan painter of early Renaissance, part of the Florentine school. The Coronation of the Virgin. 15th Century. Louvre Museum. Paris. France

Shakespeare Exhibition at Earls Court, London
Londons great attraction: what to see in Shakespeares England. How to find and identify the chief reconstructions of old Tudor buildings at Earls Court. Date: 1912

Fortuna by Ernest Board
Painting depicting a blindfolded woman playing a fateful game of cards. Date: 1911

Fridays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Nursery Rhyme - Three Little Pigs
The Tale of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Oracle of Zeus, Dodona
ZEUS / JUPITER DODONEUS whose oracle at Dodona was the oldest in Greece : the prophecies came from the sacred oak, which is depicted here as having human form

Justice as depicted on a Tarot card
Comtesse de Segur, nee Sophie Rostopchine, French writer, born in Russia, best known for Les Malheurs de Sophie, first published 1859

Tarot Card 11 - La Force (Strength)

Tarot Card 10 - La Roue de Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune)

Delphi Oracle
THE ORACLE OF DELPHI entranced

Tarot Card - As d Epee (Ace of Swords)

Tarot Card 12 - Le Pendu (The Hanged Man)

Tarot Card 9 - L Ermite (The Hermit)

Golders Green
Temple Fortune Date: 1920s

Tarot Card 6 - L'Amoureux (The Lover or Lovers). Date: 20th century

Death personified on a Tarot card
Death personified as a skeleton with a scythe on a Tarot card

Typewriter Keys / Fortune
Typewriter keys on the cover of a magazine

Norton I / American Royal
JOSHUA " EMPEROR" NORTON I Claimant to the imperial throne of North America (1859); he made a fortune in real-estate speculation

Lenormand - Europa
Grand Jeu De Mlle. De Lenormand Europa

French Palmistry Manual
L ART DE LIRE DANS LES LIGNES DE LA MAIN ( The art of reading the lines of the hand ) - a popular French manual

Tarot Card 11 - La Force (Strength)

Tarot Card 21 - Le Monde (The World). Date: 20th century

Tarot Card Fool 17C
TAROT LE FOU (The Fool)

Padstow Hobby Horse
ENGLAND: PADSTOW HOBBY HORSE: From midnight 30 April-1 May Oss, teaser & attendants dance through the streets. Any who dance with Oss will be blessed with good fortune

Tarot Card 13 - La Mort (Death)

Tarot Card 10 - La Roue de Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune)

Tarot Card 9 - L Ermite (The Hermit)

Oracle of Jupiter-Ammon
ZEUS/JUPITER AMMON - the Libyan/Egyptian form of the god, who had a famous oracle at the oasis of Siwwa, Libya

Clairvoyant
BEVERLY CRAIG, a present-day clairvoyant, tells you your fortune with the aid of her Osiris board

Gypsy & Crystal Ball
A Gypsy fortune teller gazes deeply into a crystal ball. Other tools of divination are nearby, the drained teacup for reading the tea leaves, and a pack of cards for the tarot

Tarot Card - Reyne de Deniers (Queen of Coins)

Tarot Card 8 - La Justice (Justice)

Tarot card 1 -- Le Bateleur (The Juggler)
Tarot card 1 -- Le Bateleur (The Magician, Magus or Juggler)

HELENUS Trojan soothsayer, son of Priam and Hecuba, later king of Epirus

Tarot Card 4 - L Empereur (The Emperor)

Jeremiah or George Wombwell (1777 - 1850), English zoo owner, who achieved fame and fortune with Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie, pictured shortly before his death. Date: 1850

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