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paperweight by Joe Rice
Joe Rice Glass
from the
Glass Encyclopedia
Joe Rice is the nephew of Joe St Clair and of Bob St Clair, and the great-grandson of John St Clair, a glassworker who emigrated to the USA from France in the 1880's. Joe St Clair built a glass factory in Elwood, Indiana around 1940, and his father John (Pop) St Clair and two of his brothers (Bob and Paul) worked there making high quality art glass. Bob St Clair built another glass factory near Elwood in 1971, which he called "St Clair House of Glass". When Bob died, his nephew Joe Rice took over this factory and renamed it "Joe Rice's House of Glass". Joe Rice's "House of Glass" still makes quality art glass which is normally marked "Joe Rice". There is no longer a glassworks in the Elwood area making St Clair glass.
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