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Fortune Telling CardsA sinister gipsy woman, dripping with rings and necklaces, spreads her fortune telling cards across the table... Date: 1970s
Iranian Fortune TellerThe old Iranian fortune teller looks up at her shy, smiling young customer : I see a rich and handsome young man from Tehran... Date: 1930s
PALMISTRYCross my palm with silver : a fortune teller reads someones fortune from the palms of their hands. Date: 1930s
Harewood House HallwayHarewood House, near Leeds, Yorkshire, a stately home built (1759) for the Lascelles family, whose fortune came from haberdashery and Customs work in the West Indies. Date: built 1759 - 1769
Fortune Teller & CatA sinister gipsy woman and her scary cat, reading someones fortune with playing cards... Date: 1970s
Fortune Telling CanaryA young woman with a hooked nose, wearing a cloche hat, asks an old gipsy woman if her canary can tell her fortune. Date: early 1930s
Fortune Theatre, Russell Street, LondonThe Fortune Theatre on Russell Street, Covent Garden, London presenting Fly Away Peter. Date: 1947
Dunderpate speaks to the squire in the coach, asking how he can make his fortune. The squire says he would give a silver crown to stand in the boys shoes for just an hour. Date: 1938
Guinea Day at the Festival Gardens, Festival of BritainA cartoon depicting Guinea Day at the Festival Gardens, Festival of Britain, with upper class people in their best clothes, taking part in some unlikely (for them) fairground activities
Xmas. Lady in moonlight. " Kind Fortune smiles, and she Hath yet in store for thee Some great felicity." - Shakespeare. circa 1902
Fortune chocolates advertisement, 1953Advertisement for Fortune chocolates by Caley of Norwich, whose adverts were always characterised by a couple sharing a box
Mondays 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
Wednesdays 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
Thursdays 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
Saturdays 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
D Carleton-Smyth. What is your fortune_What is your fortune, my pretty maid? My face is my fortune, Sir, she said. 20th century
Marie-Anne LenormandMARIE-ANNE LENORMAND French fortune-teller Date: 1772 - 1843
Greek TripodA Greek ceremonial tripod, as used by the Oracle at Delphi and elsewhere
I-CHINGConsulting the I-CHING in the elaborately decorated establishment of a Chinese fortune-teller Date: circa 1835
Spanish Fortune TellereA Spanish gipsy fortune-teller reads the hand of a bull- fighter as he goes to the corrida Date: 1891
Mme Lenormand FailsMme Lenormand sees the futures of her clients, but fails to foresee that she will be arrested at Brussels on a charge of smuggling Date: circa 1820
Pompeii reconstructionThe Temple of Fortune reconstruction in Pompeii Date: 79
Topsy turvy 1854 / LeechTopsy turvy - or our Antipodes. A reversal of fortune, showing miners being served and waited upon by the upper class
The German allies of WW1The Kaiser and the leaders of his fellow allies during the First World War, depicted within a lucky four-leaf clover. It was not to prove ultimately very lucky
Fortune teller - ConstantinopleA female street fortune teller in Constantinople
Sultan Ahmet Mosque - Feeding the Birds for good luckIn Turkey, birds are sometime released for good luck. These women with their bowls of corn sell the seed which you throw to the birds - this is considered lucky (feeding wild animals)
Fortune-HuntingColoured engraving, " Fortune-Hunting" published by H. Humphrey, London, 20 November 1804. HPG/8/2/1 (xli)"
Rosie Dolly and Mortimer DavisRosie Dolly (1892-1970) one half of the famous performing American identical twins, The Dolly Sisters, with Mortimer Davis Jnr, known as The Fat Boy
Madagascar - A Sorceror - using Sikidy Divination. The Diviner uses an elaborate system of computation using seeds, which can be seen in this picture
The Fortune Theatre, Cripplegate, London, c. 1840Engraving showing the exterior of the Fortune Theatre, in St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, sketched in 1840
Fortune chocolatesFull page colour advertisement for Fortune chocolates by Caley of Norwich showing a man in Father Christmas costume presenting his wife with a box
H. M. Stanleys meeting with Forest Pygmies, Central AfricaEngraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the Anglo-America explorer and journalist, meeting with some forest pygmies, during one of his expeditions to Central Africa
Thomas GuyBorn in 1644, Guy completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament. He moved to London and spent eight years as a booksellers apprentice
A Member of H. M. Stanleys expedition threatening a baggageEngraving showing a member of Sir Henry Morton Stanleys expedition to find Dr. David Livingstone threatening a baggage porter, Central Africa, 1871
H. M. Stanleys Expedition crossing the Makata Swamp, CentralEngraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanleys expedition crossing the Makata swamp in Central Africa, 1871. In October 1869
Thomas Guys tombThe tomb of Thomas Guy in the chapel at Guys hospital. Born in 1644, he completed his education and went on to represent Tamworth in Parliament
Chinese Deity of FortuneChinese god of Immortality, to which they sacrifice believing this will bring them good fortune
LOOK AHEADTom sees a group of fortune- tellers and prophesiers coming towards him but refuses to be tempted to look at the future
Fable / Vice & FortuneVICE AND FORTUNE A fable of Plutarch in which Vice and Fortune argue over who has the most power to make mankind unhappy
Fortune and the ChildFORTUNE & THE CHILD or Traveller: A boy sleeps on the brink of a deep well; Fortune wakes him, not wanting the blame for the boys folly if he should fall
Miser who Lost FortuneTHE MISER WHO LOST HIS FORTUNE: A miser finds that the gold he had buried in a hole in the ground has been taken
Fortune & the SchoolboyFORTUNE & THE SCHOOLBOY or Child or Traveller: A boy sleeps on the brink of a deep well; Fortune wakes him, not wanting the blame for the boys folly if he should fall
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904)Engraving of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the British-US explorer and journalist, pictured in 1878. In October 1869, Stanley was sent by James Gordon Bennett (the owner of the New York Herald)
Mme LenormandMARIE-ANNE LENORMAND, French fortune teller - the most famous of her kind, author of several books about herself and her art
Hands and Crystal BallA spooky photograph of a crystal ball and a womans hands
Tea Leaves in a TeacupTea leaves at the bottom of a teacup
Tarot Card Bateleur 1500TAROT Le Bateleur (The Juggler)
Tarot Card Wheel FortuneTAROT : 10 LA ROUE DE FORTUNE (The Wheel of Fortune)