SOLD Sintwisters, August 1911, Backs Turned Portrait of Women in Calicos with Evocative Spooneristic Caption playing card match box 2 1/4" long x 1

2 1/4" long x 1 1/2" across

pasted assorted clippings into the first few pages

I certainly come across a lot of Victorian trade cards

period frame with original wood back

One more found object for the week

SOLD Sintwisters, August 1911, Backs Turned Portrait of Women in Calicos with Evocative Spooneristic Caption playing card match box 2 1/4" long x 1I am obsessed with this snapshot and can't stop thinking about these two women in their long calico dresses, hands locked, hats on, backs turned, with "Sintwisters" written along the bottom in the same hand that dated it on reverse, August 1911. "Sintwisters" is certainly a "spoonerism" for twin sisters (the term getting its name from the Reverend William Archibald Spooner, 18441930, a priest and Oxford don, famous for his frequent slips of the tongue