Strange Discovery

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 A gentleman in Bedfordshire was listening to Cambridge105 Radio,

 

and heard a mention of a reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist. He had lived in Apple Limeway briefly (where the events in the diary take place) so he investigated further and found an image on the title page of the book.

Summer Diary of a Lady Artist frontispiece.

Something struck him about the "logo", presumably of the publishing company: Two Sisters Publishing.

Two Sisters Publishing logo

It reminded him of something, something his grandfather had, an old black and white photo. He contacted me by email (at ckfonsweer@gmail.com), with the scanned photo attached:

Ann Fonsweer's cabinet?
 

The photo is old and the photographer was inexpert but it is clear what reminded him of the logo of Two Sisters Publishing. The gentleman thinks the photograph was taken in the 1950s or 1960s.

It seems to be a (wooden?) cabinet, but what is inside is impossible to guess. And why his grandfather took a photo of it is also unknown. Bedfordshire is next to Cambridgeshire and so there is the link with Ann Fonsweer's Summer diary, but Bedfordshire is a long way from Scotland where the two women Helen and Linda established Two Sisters Publishing. 

The man from Bedfordshire said he would look to see if he could find any more photographs, or even the cabinet itself. It could still exist, in an attic or in the back of a garage.

 I asked him if he had purchased the book, he hadn't. 

The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.





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