My latest arrival is an oil on canvas oval portrait of a young lady wearing a white dress accented by a red shawl. She was purchased without a frame, which is a difficult thing to do as oval paintings are not so easy to find a frame that fits. I thought she looked so unusual with her hair parted and her slight smile that I wasn't concerned about a frame. I had bought a large frame from an auction in Connecticut that was housing a very heavy mirror. No one bid on it but myself. I had no intention of paying to have the mirror and frame shipped to Alabama from Connecticut. I bid with the idea of telling the shipping company to discard the mirror part and ship me the frame only. I could tell that the frame was originally intended for a portrait. So when I won, I did just that. "Send me the frame only." I had put the frame away in an upstairs closet. I thought that one day I might luck up and find a portrait the ...