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Cocktail Napkin, Wish Fulfillment, 1939
This is a Cocktail napkin. It was designed by Marguerita Mergentime. It is dated 1939. Its medium is linen (six napkins), cotton (2 napkins- graphology, tea leaves). It is a part of the department.
Mergentime used an assortment of serif and sans serif fonts for these fortune-telling cocktail napkins, which must have sparked conversation and possibly even predictions for the future amongst guests.
It is credited Courtesy of Mergentime Family Archive.
Its dimensions are
L x W (brown palmistry): 16.2 × 19.4 cm (6 3/8 × 7 5/8 in.) L x W (green phrenology): 15.9 × 19.4 cm (6 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.) L x W (green fortune telling): 15.9 × 20 cm (6 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.) L x W (red crystal ball): 15.9 × 19.4 cm (6 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.) L x W (red numerology): 16.2 × 19.7 cm (6 3/8 × 7 3/4 in.) L x W (blue fortune telling): 16.2 × 19.7 cm (6 3/8 × 7 3/4 in.) L x W (blue graphology): 16.2 × 18.7 cm (6 3/8 × 7 3/8 in.) L x W (brown tea leaves): 16.2 × 19.4 cm (6 3/8 × 7 5/8 in.)
