Sold Antique watercolor memorial to Mary Lothrop, Cohasset, Massachusetts c.1832	Sold Watercolor on silk memorial by Betsy Coolidge dated 1823 Portland, Maine	Sold Silk embroidered memorial by Adeline A. Greenleaf, Boston, MA c. 1810
	Betty Holman Massachusetts silk embroidered memorial c. 1800	Eliza Sprague Stearns c. 1808 Boston, MA silk embroidered memorial	Silk embroidered memorial dated 1819 stitched by Eliza Emerson, Salem, Massachusetts Sold
	Sophia Barney wrought this Massachusetts silk embroidered memorial c.1810	Silk embroidered memorial to Greenawalt from Chambersburg, PA	Matilda Chadwick silk embroidered memorial, Duxbury, Massachusetts 1826
	Silk Embroidered Memorial to: Mrs. Hannah Richardson, and John Gilson	Mary Gould Memorial, Massachusetts c. 1810 Sold	Charlotte Koon Memorial, York, PA, dated 1821
	Balch School Memorial to John G. & John A. Hillhouse, Providence, RI c. 1806.	Smith / Peirce Watercolor Memorial Waltham, MA c.1836	Silk embroidered memorial by Mary Ann Brown, Providence, RI c. 1815
	Memorials: Although memorials were usually a form of "silk embroidered pictures" they deserve a category to themselves. A memorial needlework picture was one of the expected accomplishments of a young cultured girl c1780 to c1840. These typically show a tomb, mourning figures, and weeping willow trees. They are beautiful, sensitive, and graceful works of needlework art that are highly sought after by the top collectors of antique samplers and needlework. Contrary to popular belief the stitchers of these memorials were not necessarily in mourning over the loss of a loved one but merely creating a popular form of needlework. If they had no one close enough to them to memorialize they may dedicate it to a well known figure that had died or inscribe the tomb "sacred to friendship" or simply leave it blank. STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER (860) 388-6809