SOLD Sintwisters, August 1911, Backs Turned Portrait of Women in Calicos with Evocative Spooneristic Caption playing card match box There is a small tear

There is a small tear to the top of that spine and general wear to covers

Just looking at this makes me want to become the kind of person who has all my nails and screws (and tubes of super glue)

but I love an object that has had it life extended many times over

One more found object for the week

with light soiling and a little bumping to the corners especially upper right

SOLD Sintwisters, August 1911, Backs Turned Portrait of Women in Calicos with Evocative Spooneristic Caption playing card match box There is a small tearI 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