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The St. Clair line started with John St.
Clair, Sr. who worked at the George MacBeth
Glass Works in Elwood from around
1903 to 1938. Local natural gas production faltered in 1938 and the St. Clairs
began to develop their ideas for a new business of their own. that was formally started in 1941. St. Clair paperweights were being sold
through Georg Jenson on Fifth Avenue in New York. The St. Clair's presence has
extended beyond his origins to art crystal, glass figurines, glass gifts,
Decorated glass, vases, dishes, bowls, artistic glass, candlesticks, candle
holders, oil lamps, decorative glass, cake plates, tumblers, glass shades,
pitchers,carafes, decanters, ice buckets, bowls, gift ideas, jewelry boxes,
perfume bottles,decanters, business card holders, ring holders, cuspidors, baskets, toothpick
holders, oil candles, glass pumpkins, garden floats, glass floats, ashtrays,
baskets, powder jar, temple
jar, water cooler, washing pots and hand blown glass.
As far as I know, all of the original St. Clair brothers have also died.
Joe Rice makes a line of paperweights under his own label.
St. Clair glass remains in production today.
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