SOLD Sintwisters, August 1911, Backs Turned Portrait of Women in Calicos with Evocative Spooneristic Caption dot-less like the manner of lettering

like the manner of lettering itself

From an old estate in Cambridge

4 1/2" long x 3 3/8" tall x 3 1/4" wide

enhancing the feeling of this as its own little homestead

SOLD Sintwisters, August 1911, Backs Turned Portrait of Women in Calicos with Evocative Spooneristic Caption dot-less like the manner of letteringI 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