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T.G. HAWKES & CO - CORNING ,NEW YORK -USA
found these at bumblepuppy yesterday for the set of 2 was $4.00 , i believe that these are very very late 19th century and turn of the century. the picther has a small chip. i have 4 pieces of hawkes american brillant cut glass.

the last pic has the acid etching as bears the hawkes name and emblem.

heres some info ive gotten from a website about hawkes.

T. G. Hawkes & Company

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Brief Historical Sketch, Trademarks, and Catalogs

Principal sources: Spillman (1996), Sinclaire and Spillman (1997)

Thomas Gibbons Hawkes founded what was probably this country's most successful factory devoted exclusively to the cutting of glass. It certainly had the longest period of operation of any cutting shop -- 82 years. Only fully-featured glassworks -- ones that included blank-making as well as glass-cutting -- had greater longevities. There were two of these -- the New England/Libbey and the Mt. Washington/Pairpoint companies.

Hawkes had been foreman of the cutting shop of J. Hoare & Company, having joined that firm when it was known as Hoare & Dailey and located in Brooklyn, NY, soon after his arrival in this country from Ireland in 1863. He was born at his father's estate, Surmount House, County Cork, in 1846. Although Spillman (1996) and Sinclaire and Spillman (1997), whose accounts of Hawkes -- the man and his company -- were used to assemble this summary, trace the Hawkes family's presence in Ireland to an ancestor who migrated from England in the seventeenth century, according to genealogical information on the Internet where it is said that he "left behind another branch [of the family that] produced several noted glassmakers in the nineteenth century". This is an allusion to Thomas Hawkes (d.1848) of Dudley, located near Worcester, who, with his brothers, ran a glass factory that was especially successful during the second quarter of the nineteenth century (Hajdamach 1991, pp. 63-79). A firm connection between this branch of the Hawkes family and that of Thomas Gibbons Hawkes has yet to be established, however (note 1).

According to the obituary of T. G. Hawkes (where information concerning Thomas Hawkes of Dudley is also given) the family descends directly from Thomas Hawkes of Essex, a martyr of Saxon lineage. In 1726 John Hawkes, a descendant of the martyr, moved to County Cork from Worcestershire and founded Monteen Castle. His eldest son, also named John, eventually inhereted the extensive land-holdings of his father and established Surmount which became the ancestory home of the Hawkes family in Ireland. This John Hawkes (there were several) -- Thomas Gibbons's paternal great grandfather -- married twice. He and his second wife had a large family that included a son, Samuel, who married Sarah (Sally) Penrose, a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Randall) Penrose of Waterford. This family is said to have included George and William Penrose (uncle and nephew), the founders, in 1783, of the Waterford Glass House. The exact relationship between Sarah Penrose and the glasshouse owners -- who were owners only until 1799 -- is not known. She is not mentioned in Warren's (1981) detailed study of this famous factory. Sarah Penrose was T. G.'s paternal grandmother.

The large family of Samuel Hawkes included a son, Quayle Welstead Hawkes (1815-1906) -- T. G.'s father -- who married Jane Gibbons (1821-1909) in 1842. Thirteen of their children lived to maturity. T. G. was the third child, the second son. As a second son he would not have inherited the family's holdings. This may have been a reason why he emigrated, although a desire on his part "to see the world" is also given. Ironically, the older son, Samuel, died in 1891, well before his father. Did Thomas Gibbons then inherit? (His mother died in 1909.)

T. G. Hawkes' family, on both sides, belonged to the Ascendancy (a privileged class of Protestant Anglo-Irish businessmen, office-holders, professionals, and land-owners). The family was, as a result, financially secure. Thomas Gibbons was able to undertake two years of civil engineering at Queens College, Cork. There is no evidence that he was, in any substantial way, exposed to the craft of glassmaking prior to his departure from Ireland. When he emigrated he was literate and educated -- definitely not the stereotypical nineteenth century Irish immigrant. Hawkes' training undoubtedly was a factor in the success of his many patented and unpatented designs for cut glass. In addition, he had a well-developed business sense, and it is said that he invested wisely. His company succeeded, even after his death in 1913, when he left an estate valued at about half a million dollars. This was a time when other cutting shops were struggling financially and often faced failure.

In 1880 Hawkes left the Hoare firm, which had moved from Brooklyn to Corning, NY in 1868, and set up his own cutting shop in that Steuben County village, after having worked briefly at a Hoare and Dailey branch shop in Rochester, NY. A few years later he signed himself "T. G. Hawkes, Rich Cut Glass Manufacturer, Corning, New York" in a proposal to supply glassware to the White House (Spillman 1989, p. 88). Following several successful years during this period -- when the company was known as Hawkes Rich Cut Glass -- the firm incorporated as T. G. Hawkes & Company in 1890. This is the designation used in this file. A year before incorporation the Hawkes company displayed its wares at the Universal Exposition in Paris where it won acclaim and a Grand Prize. This event was important for the company and is of particular interest to the present-day collector.

The proposal sent to the White House was accepted. It has previously been assumed that this was an order for glassware cut in the Russian pattern. Spillman and others now believe that the order consisted of replacement pieces for table settings originally ordered by the Lincolns in 1861 and blown and cut at C. Dorflinger & Company, Brooklyn. No photographs or drawings exist of Hawkes's White House order, so there remains some uncertainty as to the actual pattern supplied. Arguments that favor the Russian pattern because this was thought to have been an exclusive Hawkes design must be discarded. It is now known that Hawkes never patented the Russian pattern (probably because it was nearly identical to the generic Star and Hobnail pattern). Moreover, this pattern was being cut by several companies at the time of the White House order, 1885. (The pattern previously thought to have been the Russian pattern -- one designed by Philip MacDonald for the Hawkes firm in 1882 -- is now recognized as an entirely different pattern, one that only superficially resembles the Russian pattern. See the russian1.htm file in Part 1 for details.)

In 1903 Hawkes introduced a line of engraved glassware called "Gravic". It consisted of naturalistic designs, stone-wheel engraved, and usually left in a matte finish. Some elements, particularly leaves, were often cut and polished. Three such patterns were patented, but their names are given in quotation marks in the Hawkes' Patents file because their exact catalog names have not yet been discovered. The situation is complicated because it appears that the patterns were sometimes called "Satin Engraved" instead of "Gravic" (Spillman 1996, p. 56). Until approximately the First World War these "Gravic" designs were often quite elaborate, and some of the more desirable ones -- from a collector's point-of-view -- combined matte engraving with polished, geometric cutting. Later many "Gravic" designs were greatly simplified. "Gravic" does not necessarily imply a quality piece of Hawkes glass, but it can.

Although T. G. Hawkes & Company continued to produce excellent examples of glassware cut in the brilliant style after the turn-of-the-twentieth-century, many of its patterns were merely variations (usually simplified) of nineteenth century designs. Nevertheless, a few of the new patterns were quite original. Patterns such as Queens, Willow, Napoleon, and North Star -- to mention only four -- are designs that retain their freshness today.

Lighter-weight glassware, simply cut or engraved. must have been produced in huge quantities after the First World War, judging from the amount that is found today. This type of glassware has yet to find favor with today's collectors, although examples that have garnered unusually high prices can sometimes be found at Internet auction sites.

Following several years during which the company failed to register a profit, T. G. Hawkes & Company was dissolved in 1962.

Trademarks

The earliest Hawkes trademark, shown in advertisements such as these that appeared in Harper's Magazine, was used only on paper labels, beginning in 1891 and continuing through the decade.
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