This small, aged card box is labelled with instructions for divining your fortune using The Golden Wheel. It is an item of mystery and curiosity, somewhere between a puzzle and a game...
As you unfold the box, instructions are revealed. Step-by-step, you are guided through the ritual of selecting a number from the golden wheel.
Once a number is arrived at, the person is read their fortune from a set of 10 numbered cards.
Each paper Golden Wheel can be used up to three or four times. Refills are available, or you can photocopy your own.
Based on Felix Fontaine's Golden Wheel fortune teller from 1862. The fortunes are old fashioned, sometimes a bit strange and often funny.
Sample Fortunes:
"Good conduct will produce much luck and happiness" "You too fantastically refuse offers. Be prudent when you accept, or you will be sorry" "You will die an old maid" "You will get a handsome, young, and wealthy partner"
This has been designed as an ornamental piece and conversation starter, ideal for a cabinet of curiosities. Each of these is hand made, uniquely aged and has variation in the wear and appearance.
Includes: Aged brown card box with instruction labels. Wooden square with cork inlay and brass pin 12, 24 or 36 circular Golden Wheels, printed on 160gsm ivory card 100 fortunes printed across 10 cards (160gsm, not thick cards)
