Past Conventions

Hightstown, NJ

📍 Town House Motel
📅 Saturday, June 8
👥 Attendance: 23

Highlights

First SBCCA Convention

Key Event: Election of Officers

Stamford, CT

📍 Stamford Motor Inn
📅 Saturday, June 7
👥 Attendance: 27

Highlights

Presentation: Similarities Between Still & Mechanical Banks (Bill Werbel)

Denver, PA

📍 Colonial Motor Lodge
📅 Saturday, June 6
👥 Attendance: 38

Highlights

Convention Favor: Booklet “Our Favorite Banks”

Decision to provide official SBCCA bank at the next convention

Philadelphia, PA

📍 Bookbinder’s Restaurant
📅 Saturday, June 5
👥 Attendance: 41

Highlights

Presentation: Slide show of hard-to-find and interesting bank variations (Ralph Dye)

Convention Favor: Bank - 1902 Horseless Carriage (Banthrico)

Visits: Leon Perleman’s Toy Museum

Chicopee, MA

📍 Ramada Inn
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 9–10
👥 Attendance: 47

Highlights

Club Design Preview: Sketches of Boy on Rocking Horse club bank

Convention Favor: Poster – J.E. Stevens Co. products (Lin Pickle)

Visits: Collections of Craig and Pickle, Hale and Whiting

Cincinnati, OH

📍 Hospitality Inn
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 8–9
👥 Attendance: 40

Highlights

Presentation: Wooden pattern for Rocking Horse Bank (later rejected)

Convention Favor: Booklet “Our Favorite Banks Book II”, Bank - Ohio Buckeye (Lou Filler)

Visits: Collections of Ralph Dye, Lou Filler

Hauppauge, Long Island, NY

📍 Colonial Hill Motel
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 7–8
👥 Attendance: 40

Highlights

Presentation: Rocking Horse Bank (ordering sequence drawn by lot)

Convention Favor: German Bank – Two Erotia with Wings on Papyrus Boat (Gerhard Riegraf)

SBCCA Bank: Club Rocking Horse Bank

Visits: Gerald Lange, Bill Werbel, Ed Mosler

Lancaster, PA

📍 Sheraton–Conestoga Village
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 6–7
👥 Attendance: 49

Highlights

Milestone: Rocking Horse Bank officially adopted as the club emblem

Wyomissing, PA

📍 Reading Motor Lodge
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 4–5
👥 Attendance: 76

Highlights

Theme: Assemblage of Rare Banks and Bi-Centennial Banks

SBCCA Bank: The Flags Bank

Host/Chair: Bernard Ellinghaus

Visit: Henry Hall

Wyomissing, PA

📍 Reading Motor Lodge
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 3–4
👥 Attendance: 96

Highlights

Panel Discussion: Tin banks

Convention Favor: “You Can Bank on a Bank Collector” pin

SBCCA Bank: Tin and cardboard can bank

Front: Rocking Horse

Back: Convention dates

Lancaster, PA

📍 Sheraton–Conestoga Village
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 2–3
👥 Attendance: 84

Highlights

Theme: Non-Whiting Banks in Any Material

Discussion: Photographic essay on rarely documented banks

SBCCA Bank: “Penny-Pig” porcelain bank (Gerhard Riegraf)

Syracuse, NY

📍 Ramada Inn
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 1–2
👥 Attendance: 90

Highlights

Host: Brian Cleary

SBCCA Bank: Suitcase Bank showing all convention sites/dates (Gerhard Riegraf)

Home Visits: Brian Cleary, Gordon Jorgensen

Denver, PA

📍 Colonial Motor Lodge
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 6–7
👥 Attendance: 130

Highlights

Host: Edward Russell

Presentations: 100 Best Banks (Gerhard Riegraf), Foundry Practice

Convention Favors:

Wooden Puppy with Bee (Earl Albright)

Amish Man (Charlie Reynolds, Bernie Ellinghaus)

Others by Gerhard Riegraf

SBCCA Bank: Frog Bank, porcelain (Gerhard Riegraf)

Rockville, MD

📍 Ramada Inn
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 5–6
👥 Attendance: 110

Highlights

Host: Edward Russell

Presentation: U.S. Political Banks

Convention Favors: Ballpoint pen, 6" ruler, place magnet, screwdriver key chain

SBCCA Bank: Tin lithographed rectangular bank with D.C. buildings

Home Visits:

Ed & Jonetta Russell

Ed & Julie Winston

Ralph & Ida Berman

Hartford, CT

📍 Holiday Inn
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 4–5
👥 Attendance: 110

Highlights

Theme: Security – Safeguarding Your Bank Collection

Convention Favors:

Mark Twain Bank (Charlie Reynolds)

Wood Cat Plaque (Earl Albright)

SBCCA Bank: Toy Soldier – designed by Ed Russell & Don Duer (489 produced)

Home Visit: Bob & Jean McCumber

Chicago, IL

📍 Best Western Lakeshore Hotel
📅 Thursday–Saturday, June 2–4

Highlights

Host: Earl Albright

Display: Arcade Manufacturing Company Banks

SBCCA Bank: The First National Bank of Chicago (Banthrico)

Tour: Banthrico Manufacturing Plant – attendees received brass-plated Poodle Bank

Home Visits:

Bruce & Blossom Abell

Norm & Mary Jo Bowers

Andy & Susan Moore

Baltimore, MD

📍 Holiday Inn – Cromwell Bridge Road
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 1–2,

Highlights

Host: Bernard Ellinghaus

Pre-Convention Visit: Bernard Ellinghaus

Home Visit: Sheila & Russ Harrington

Columbus, OH

📍 Columbus Marriott Inn – East
📅 Friday–Saturday, May 31–June 1
👥 Attendance: 162

Highlights

Theme: Banks Made by Kenton Hardware Company

Presentation: 28 PG Kenton Hardware publication featuring the collections of Bob Sawyer, Bob & Arlene Smith, and Bill Robinson

SBCCA Bank: (Not specified)

Favor: Cedar wood Ohio map wall bank (crafted by Earl Albright)

Home Visit: Bob & Marilyn Warner

Pre-/Post-Convention Visits: Bob & Arlene Smith, Bill & Jean Robinson, Ralph Dye

Lancaster, PA (Club 20th Anniversary)

📅 Thursday–Sunday, June 5–7
👥 Attendance: 170

Highlights

Presentation: Mike Henry – Identifying and Avoiding Reproduction Banks

Tour: John Wright Foundry

SBCCA Bank: Book Bank

Design: Arlaine Smith

Pattern Mold: Laverne Worley

Painting: Bob Smith

20th Anniversary Bank: Mulligan the Cop (by John Wright Co.)

Favor: Cedar wood Amish horse and wagon (crafted by Earl Albright)

Home Visit: Bob Brady

St. Louis, MO

📍 Holiday Inn Airport North
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 5–6
👥 Attendance: 160

Highlights

Theme: Fictional Character Banks from Radio, Movies, and TV

Video Tapes Distributed:

Hall Henry’s Collection

Bud Harris & the 1972 Whiting Collection Division

SBCCA Bank: St. Louis Arch Bank (Pattern by Laverne Worley)

Home Visits: Gordon & Esther Schroff; Jim & Mary Darr

Post-Convention Visits: Toni & Loretta Carmi; Jim & Paulette Redwine; Bob & Janet Heberer; Curt Werner

Orlando, FL

📍 Altamonte Springs Hilton
📅 Thursday–Saturday, June 2–4,
👥 Attendance: 150

Highlights

Hosts: Don Duer & Bruce Russell

SBCCA Bank: Sailboat

Concept: Don Duer

Pattern: Harold Bucher

Painting: Joe Knight

Presentation Bank: Florida Real Estate and Safe Bank (Charlie Reynolds)

Favors: Tulip Bank centerpiece, Alligator Bank (Earl Albright)

Home Visit: Don Duer & Doc Russell

Buffalo, NY

📍 Buffalo Sheraton
📅 Thursday–Saturday, June 1–3
👥 Attendance: 170

Highlights

Theme: Bring Your Favorite Bank

Host: Carl Camillo

SBCCA Bank: Trolley Bank (based on Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Trolley; produced by Carl Camillo)

Home Visits: Carl Camillo, Karl Kittelberger

Special Visit: Gold Dome Collection of Mechanical Banks

Lancaster, PA

📍 Days Inn of Lancaster
📅 Thursday–Saturday, May 31–June 2
👥 Attendance: 194

Highlights

Host: Bob Brady

SBCCA Bank: Lancaster Sheep Bank (cast at John Wright Foundry)

Favor: Cedar wood Rocking Horse Bank (Earl Albright)

Home Visit: Bob Brady

Special Visit: John Wright Factory Tour

St. Louis, MO

📍 Holiday Inn Airport North
📅 Friday–Saturday, June 7–8,

Highlights

Host: Gateway Penny Bank Club

SBCCA Bank: St. Louis Mule Bank

Livonia, MI

📍 Livonia Marriott
📅 Thursday–Saturday, June 4–6
👥 Attendance: Approx. 200

Highlights

Hosts: Ken & Jan Dersey

SBCCA Bank: Pig on Sled (?)

Favor: SBCCA Ford Truck Banthrico Bank

Note: Each had an uncirculated 1992 penny glued to the bottom

Total produced: 200

Home Visits: Bob Lyon; Ken & Jan Dersey

Arlington Heights, IL

📍 Radisson Hotel Arlington Heights
📅 Thursday–Saturday, June 3–5
👥 Approximate Attendance: 200

Highlights

Hosts: Dick & Linda Soukup; Mike & Carol Henry

Theme: Banks Produced in Chicago

Featured Presentation: Harper Supply Company – presented by Mike Henry

SBCCA Convention Bank: Abraham Lincoln’s Log Cabin

Convention Favor: Rehberger Bank Book – gifted by Bob & Shirley Pierce

Home Visits: Dick & Linda Soukup; Norm Bowers; Mike & Carol Henry

Reading, PA

📍 Inn at Reading
📅 June 9–10
👥 Attendance: 205

Highlights

·  Hosts: Harry & Lynn Ward

·   Theme: My First Bank

·   SBCCA Bank: Circular bank with club logo and Reading Pagoda (300 cast)

Greenville, SC

📍Greenville Airport Marriott
📅June 1–3
👥Attendance: 170

Highlights

Host: Tamara Watkins

Highlight: Glass Banks (Charlie Reynolds)

SBCCA Bank: Cotton Bale

Home Visit: Tamara Watkins

Syracuse, NY

📍 Four Points Hotel
📅 June 6–8

Highlights

Building Banks (Tom Kellogg)

Stoddard Collection (Tom Stoddard)

Favor: Maple Syrup Can

Home Visits: Gordon Jorgensen; Rud Trowbridge

Indianapolis, IN

📍 Ramada Indianapolis Airport
📅 June 12–14, 1997
👥 Attendance: 270

Highlights

Convention Favor: Guide to Recognizing Damage to Still Banks booklet

SBCCA Bank: Safe Bank

Home Visit: Larry & Jeanie Egelhoff

Portland, OR

📍 Portland Marriott
📅 June 4–6

Highlights:

Hosts: Frank & Joyce Kidd

SBCCA Bank: Kidd’s Doc Yak (Reynolds Toys)

Visits: Kidd Toy Museum

Williamsport, PA

📍 Holiday Inn Williamsport
📅 June 10–12
👥 Attendance: 264

Highlights:

Hosts: Don & Betty Jo Heim

Favor: Yuengling Beer Can Banks (set of 3; 4 total variants)

Home Visit: Don & Betty Jo Heim

Sturbridge, MA

Convention #33
📍 Sturbridge Host Hotel
📅 June 8–10

Highlights:

Hosts: Elinor Ross; Lin & Nancy Pickle

War Savings Banks (Guy Williams)

Pottery Banks of Northern France (Lin Pickle)

SBCCA Bank: OSV Pottery Neck-Hanging Bank

Home Visits: Lin & Mary Pickle; Jean McCumber

Lancaster, PA

📍 The Eden Resort Inn
📅 June 6–9

Highlights

Presentation: Blacklight Use for Paint Analysis (Matt Medeiros, Jim Yeager)

Marietta, OH

Convention #35
📍 Comfort Inn
📅 June 12–15

Highlights

Hosts: Fred Cox, Ralph Dye, Chuck & Marilyn Meeks

Favors: Bill Werbel with Suitcases (Charlie Reynolds); Nighty-Night Bear Bank (Ulrike Riegraf-Blank)

SBCCA Bank: Marietta Silo Bank

Home Visits: Fred Cox; Ralph Dye; Chuck & Marilyn Meeks

Schaumburg, IL

📍 Hyatt Regency Woodfield
📅 June 5–7

Highlights

Hosts: Dick & Linda Soukup

SBCCA Bank: Mrs. O’Leary (Color Variants: Blue, Bronze, 1 White)

Home Visits: Soukup, Henry, Shepard, Bowers

Alexandria, VA

📍 Hilton Alexandria Mark Center
📅 June 24–26
👥 Attendance: 150

Highlights

Host: Jeanie Egelhoff

Convention Favor: Ceramic Mount Vernon Bank (Ulrike Riegraf-Blank)

SBCCA Bank: Capitol Building (Don Duer, Jeanie Egelhoff)

Open House: Charlie & Judy Reynolds

Lancaster, PA

📍 Eden Resort Inn
📅 June 9–11

Highlights

Presentation: Borgfeldt Banks (Harry Ward)

SBCCA Bank: Ceramic Rainy Day Duck (Ulrike Riegraf-Blank)

Home Visit: Mike & Beth Holz

Perrysburg, OH (Club 40th Anniversary)

📍 Holiday Inn
📅 June 14–17

Highlights

Hosts: Liz & Elliotte Harold

Relocated / rescheduled from New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina

SBCCA Bank: Two-Faced Fellow (Pottery)

Home Visits: Speck, Kellogg, Bauer, Penn

Overland Park, KS

📍 Holiday Inn
📅 June 13–16, 2007
👥 Attendance: 150

Highlights

Hosts: Ken & Mary Russell

SBCCA Bank: Kansas City Monarchs Baseball Player (Ken Russell, Larry Egelhoff)

Home Visit: Ken & Mary Russell

Orlando, FL

📍 Holiday Inn Select
📅 June 12–15

Highlights

Host: Marty Gutierrez

SBCCA Bank: Sun Trust Building, Orlando (InFocusTech – 150 produced)

Home Visits: Duer, Kerr, Gutierrez

Gettysburg, PA

📍 Wyndham Hotel
📅 June 17–20

Highlights

Hosts: Mike & Beth Holz

Presentation: Toy Bank Ephemera (Dr. Z)

SBCCA Bank: Gettysburg Safe (InFocusTech – 125 produced)

Home Visits: Mike & Beth Holz

New Orleans, LA

📍 Chateau LeMoyne
📅 June 16–19

Highlights

Hosts: Liz & Elliotte Harold

Ohr Pottery Banks (Dr. Z)

Munich Child Banks (Ulrike Riegraf-Blank)

Jazz Cruise on The Creole Queen

SBCCA Bank: St. Louis Cathedral

Pre-Visit: Jack & Anne White

Home Visit: Harold Family

Dayton, OH

📍 Dayton Marriott
📅 June 15–18

Highlights

SBCCA Bank: Wood Bank Box (Elliotte Harold; 100 made)

Home Visits: Fritch, Laubenthal

Timonium, MD

📍 Crowne Plaza
📅 June 27–30

Highlights

Host: Leon Weiss

Presentations: Cleaning & Care (Jim Yeager, Bob Brady);

Joint Convention: Combined with MBCA

·Home Visits: Brady, Barnhill

Schaumburg, IL

📍 Hyatt Regency
📅 June 5–8

Highlights

Hosts: Dick & Linda Soukup

Presentation: Bank Manufacturing (John Eilering)

Presentation: JM Harper Banks (Mike Henry)

SBCCA Bank: Fort Dearborn Blockhouse

Home Visits: Henry, Soukup, Eilering, Bowers

Troy, MI

📍 Somerset Inn
📅 June 18–21

Highlights

Host: Dolli Kettron

Presentation: Hart Company & Detroit History (Dr. Z)

SBCCA Bank: Stove Bank

Home Visits: Dr. Z, Kettron, Rocheleau, Dersey

State College, PA

📅 July 15–16

Highlights

Hosts: Dan & Betty Jo Heim

Presentation: English Still and Mechanical Banks (John Haley)

Home Visits: Heim, Shadel, Conklin

Buffalo, NY (Club 50th Anniversary)

📍 Hyatt Regency Downtown
📅 June 8–11

Highlights

Hosts: Gary & Sandy Rizzo

Presentations: Bank Quality & Condition (Leon Weiss, Jim Yeager);

Electrified Trolley Tour

SBCCA Bank: 50th Anniversary Ceramic Rocking Horse Bank

Home Visit: The Rizzos

Portland, OR

📍 Monarch Hotel – Clackamas
📅 June 8–10

Highlights

Hosts: Frank & Joyce Kidd

Visit: Kidd Toy Museum

Special Project Book: Political Banks (Bob Peirce)

SBCCA Bank: Ceramic Doc Yak

Joint SBCCA & MBCA Convention

Marietta, OH

📍 Lafayette Hotel
📅 June 7–9
👥 Attendance: 150

Highlights

Host: Charles Meeks

Presentation: Safe Bank Book (Mike Holz)

SBCCA Bank: Rabbit or Duck (In honor of Ralph Dye)

Home Visit: Charles Meeks, Dr. Fred & Mary Louise Cox

Olathe, KS

📍 Embassy Suites – Olathe
📅 June 6–8

Highlights

Hosts: Ken & Mary Russell

SBCCA Bank: Liberty Memorial (WWI Tower)

Home Visits: Russell, Riat, Stubbs, Jensen, Yeager, Herman

COVID

Canton, Ohio

📍 Embassy Suites
📅 June 10–12

Highlights

Hosts: Ken & Mary Russell; Dr. Ed Brown

Presentations: Ohio Foundries: AC Williams, Stanford Pottery, Miller Foundry

Joint convention with MBCA

SBCCA Bank: Football Bank (105 produced)

Home Visits: Tom Kellogg, Dan Penn

Philadelphia, PA

📍 Philadelphia Marriott
📅 May 5–8

Highlights

Hosts: Jeanne Bertoia & Dennis Hilstein

Joint with MBCA

Home Visits: Steel, Bertoia, Milstein, Booth

Schaumburg, IL

📍 Hyatt Regency
📅 June 8–10

Highlights

Hosts: Mike & Carol Henry, Dick & Linda Soukup

Sanfilippo Estate Tour

The Quest for THE BANK (Dolli Kettron)

Rare Bank Review (Mike Henry)

Home Visits: Mike & Carol Henry, Dick & Linda Soukup

Lincoln, NE

📍 Embassy Suites
📅 June 20–22

Highlights

Hosts: Bob & Wilma Arp

Presentation: Reproductions, Repairs, and Blacklight Use (Bob Arp, Ken Russell, Jim Yeager)

Special Visit: Speedway Motors Museum Tour

Home Visit: Bob & Wilma Arp

Livonia, MI

📍 Livonia Marriott
📅 Thursday–Saturday, June 5-7
👥 Attendance: Approx. 90

Highlights

Hosts: Ken & Jan Dersey

Seminar: Website Update (Catherine Cook & Mike Holz)

Friday Dinner Presentation: Made in Detroit Banks (Mike Holz)

Saturday Dinner Presentation: Solicitation Banks (Mike Henry)

Hotel Suite Exhibit: Kevin & Dawn Armstrong

Home Visits: Ken & Jan Dersey

Towson, MD (Club 60th Anniversary)