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COIPS Convention 2012

will be Friday and Saturday, October 19th and 20th, 2012

The Stoney Creek Inn

101 Mariners Way,

East Peoria, IL

Please make reservations early at phone 1-800-659-2220 or (309) 694-1300

Hotel is conveniently located in East Peoria.

Off Interstate 74 simply take Exit 95 onto North Main Street.

Proceed northward about 1 1/2 miles to our hotel

on the west side of North Main, just North of Casino.

Please VISIT the The Stoney Creek Inn

and to get your detailed directions see Interpretive MAP

A CURRENT MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND ALL COIPS FUNCTIONS.

THE CONVENTION PACKAGE IS $30.00

Preliminary Convention 2012 Agenda

4:00PM Evening Registration packet and Commemorative Pickup

7:00PM Business Meeting

Silent Auction of COIPS Past/Present Commemoratives

Friday Evening Social

Convention Show and Sale

Dealers set up 8:00AM to 9:00AM

8:30 AM Show and Sale for members WITH a convention package.

9:00 AM Show and Sale for members WITHOUT convention package

10:00 AM to Noon Show and Sale for public

2:00 PM Afternoon SPECIAL SEMINAR

4:00PM Auction Check In

4:30 PM to 5:00 PM Auction Viewing

SPECIAL NOTE: Regardless of the price any item realizes in the auction, only the one flat $10 entrance fee is charged per item. A $10 fee is charged on each item entered in the auction ("Buy-Backs" included).

Convention 2011 Summary

The 2011 event at East Peoria, Illinois, entailed a Friday night Annual Business Meeting, a moment of silence for members that have passed away, a great social, silent auction, room hopping buying-selling-trading, 50/50 tickets to win convention prizes, and the award of the COIPS 28th annual commemorative. Saturday entailed three very interesting and creative show displays, a breath taking Rare Items table, the COIPS Show and Sale, and an in-depth and most informative seminar about pottery fraud and fake stoneware by Mr. Larry Birks. We received a great banquet dinner that evening, followed by a very professionally digitally presented Powerpoint Slide Production by Tom O'Hare, and the evening major auction. Each day a large selection of stoneware was offered for sale by show dealers, and several very rare and unusual stoneware items appeared for sale, both in room sales and the Saturday morning sale and confab, and acquired at the evening auction. Many fine pieces of Illinois stoneware found new homes. Best of all, it was another great time for the membership to meet and visit and at a terrific facility, the Stoney Creek Inn. Special thanks is given to all current and past board members for all their hard work and dedication to the Collectors of Illinois Pottery and Stoneware.

Saturday SHOW & SALE 2011