Bulletin Board
www.coips.org
C O I P S
Our site for Convention 2008 is East Peoria, Illinois,
on Oct 31st and Nov 1st, at the Stoney Creek Inn.
Interstate 74 / Exit 95a (North)
Please make reservations NOW
Phone (309) 694-1300 or Call 800-659-2220 . This is conveniently located at 101 Mariners Way.
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Friday Night
Evening Registration packet and Commemorative Pickup
7:00PM Business Meeting
Silent Auction of COIPS Past/Present Commemoratives
Friday Evening Social
Room Hopping
50/50 Tickets
Saturday
Show Display Tables
Rare Finds Table
Convention Show and Sale
Dealers set up 8:00AM to 9:00AM
PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NO EARLY ENTRY INTO SHOW & SALE
Free entry to all COIPS members from 9:00AM to 10:00PM
General public is admitted at 10:00AM
Afternoon SPECIAL SEMINAR
Evening Banquet and Slide Show
Evening Annual Auction - members may cosign up to 5 items with a 10%
commision rate (only 3% charge on buy backs
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phone (217) 947-2522
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Please share your photos and stories. Photos may
be in color or black & white and mailed to:
Collectors of Illinois Pottery and Stoneware
c/o Newsletter Editors Connie & Tony Dalson Peacock
220 Clarendon
East Dubuque, Ill 61025
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You are welcome to advertise free.
Please submit any Sale / Wanted / Trade notices you want .
Please forward interesting stoneware related photographs and articles to the COIPS Website via an email attachment to Greg Mathis coipsgm@netscape.net
Comments and suggestions are always much appreciated.
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COIPS Monmouth Springfest
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
The COIPS 2007 Spring Swap Meet was held in conjunction with the Monmouth Chamber of Commerce "Pottery on the Square Event" on Saturday, June 23rd, 2007, in Monmouth, Illinois.
COIPS, and members of The Blue and White Club, The Sleepy Eye Club, and The Red Wing Collectors Society were in attendance. Activities included a Swap Meet, pottery throwing demonstrations, impressive window displays of rare pottery pieces, and an appraisers tent.
Special thanks are extended, once again, for the outstanding job at planning and organizing by our Officers and Board and to those involved in the day's
displays and activities, and to the Monmouth Chamber of Commerce. All the hard work by everyone is much appreciated ! ! !
Carl & Char Hirst
Springfest, 2007
Auction and Membership Update
Thanks to the efforts of the many members who consigned items to our 2005 auction, as we ended up with close to 100% improvement in sales. The quality of the auction pieces was also vastly improved. With a little more improvement we can get the auction back to where it use to be a few years ago. So don't forget to save a couple of good pieces again for this years auction. Also club membership is on the rise. In the last 2 years we have went from 186 to 341 total members from 19 different states. We will be putting out some more flyers and doing some advertising in the antique newspapers to help bring in new members. The Board has worked very hard to bring back the swap meet, so bring something to show, sell or trade, there should be lots of stoneware for sale so do not miss this C.O.I.P.S. club event.
Thanks
Gerry Reeves, Publicity Chairman
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