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This left Wilhelm Kielblock, a noted German stained glass designer and painter, [2] and Elmore Helf, a business man, to reorganize the company. Elmore Helf was not the first member of the Helf family to run a stained glass studio, his father, Henry Helf, was shop foreman for Von Gerichten Art Glass Company in Columbus, Ohio. [3]
The factory was state of the art for its day and opened in 1909. [3] John was not the best businessman, he was more of a promoter. [3] The factory was in an obscure location and the company folded in 1911. [1] The company was sold to Samuel Fair and was reopened as the Radium Glass Company. [1] This company only lasted one year and closed in ...
The first year for glass production was 1907. [1] In 1908 John Fenton left the company and founded the Millersburg glass company in Millersburg, OH. [1] Frank Fenton was the designer and decorator. From 1905 to 1920, the designs made there were heavily influenced by two other glass companies: Tiffany and Steuben.
Art glass is a subset of glass art, this latter covering the whole range of art made from glass. Art glass normally refers only to pieces made since the mid-19th century, and typically to those purely made as sculpture or decorative art , with no main utilitarian function, such as serving as a drinking vessel, though of course stained glass ...
Two large stained-glass windows installed by Hartford City Glass Company's Belgian glass workers A New England Glass Company ewer , 1840–1860 A Novelty Glass Company advertisement in 1891 An electrical insulator made by Whitall Tatum Company , circa 1922
The company went bankrupt in 1963, with the Tiffin plant reorganizing as the "Tiffin Art Glass Company". [2] The other plant which survived to that point was the Glassport, Pennsylvania , plant. It was closed after a storm on August 3, 1963, which resulted in the factory's water tower collapsing through the plant roof.
The next glass works was the Fostoria Glass Company, which was founded by veteran glass men from West Virginia. This company became the town's most famous glass factory. [16] The third glass factory was the Buttler Art Glass Company, which was incorporated in 1887 but did not finish construction of its glass works until February 22, 1888.
The Buttler Art Glass site was offered for sale on February 20 and eventually sold to another group of investors (including Foster) that formed the Novelty Glass Company. [38] [Note 3] Despite the news releases about the new glass works, the Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company was not formally organized until after it was announced that Kopp was hired.