Franklin Art Glass Studios

The wholesale and retail departments meanwhile sell glass from nearly every domestic and foreign manufacturer and all the tools necessary to the trade.

This left Wilhelm Kielblock, a noted German stained glass designer and painter,[2] and Elmore Helf, a business man, to reorganize the company.

Through this arrangement Helf would sell the Munich – style commissions designed and painted by Kielblock’s Ohio Trade Studio.

In 1945 Elmore’s son, James Helf assumed control of the company after returning home from serving in WWII.

[8] In 1971 after graduating with a degree in Business Administration from Eastern Kentucky University, Gary Helf began working at Franklin Art Glass.