Hawkes Cut Glass "Romance" Booklet

About the Hawkes Cut Glass "Romance" Booklet

The online Hawkes "Romance" booklet presented on the ACGA website is based on an original found by the LABAC group during 2001. This material was distributed as loose page copies during LABAC Cycle 2.

Hawkes Nautilus

Plate or round platter cut in the Hawkes Nautilus pattern, mentioned on p. 21 but not pictured in this booklet. 10 1/4" diameter, 1 1/4" tall. This plate sold for $6,900 online in 2003.

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From information found in [Industry] pp. 147-49 the present booklet is identified as an example of the "Second Edition" of the Hawkes Cut Glass booklet, published shortly after 1900. Information in [Industry] also suggests that this 2nd Edition booklet was distributed sometime during 1901-1905. These promotional booklets were given to retail and wealthy individual customers of the Hawkes firm.

Further research developing the first introduction, patenting or advertisement date for the patterns mentioned or shown in this booklet might enable determination of a tighter publication date.

Hawkes Dish Yeddo

Dish or handless nappy cut by Hawkes in the Yeddo pattern, mentioned on p. 21 but not pictured in this booklet. Motifs include hobstars, slender vesicas of crosscutting, fans, 16 point central hobstar with the old-fashioned split points. 2 ½” tall, 5” diameter. See Hawkes 1902 catalog p. 47; or Flash Card set 2, card 68.

Identified patterns pictured in the booklet are listed below.

Pattern Name Page Shape Year Introduced
Fancy Prisms 5 Candlestick  
Navarre 6 Rose Globe  
Gladys 7 Tumbler  
Gladys 7 Water Bottle  
"B" 8 Oil  
Brunswick 11 Worcestershire Bottle  
Brunswick 13 Jug  
Brunswick 14 Vase  
Lorraine 15 Sugar and Cream  
Gladys 17 Decanter  
Gladys 17 Claret  
Rock Crystal 18 Loving Cup  
Glencoe 19 Coogne  
Navarre 20 Trumpet Vase  
Odd 21 Vase  
Odd 22 Lamp and Globe  
Roman 23 Bowl  
Not Named 23 Knife Rest  
Brazilian 25 Candelabra 1889 [Industry]
Portland 26 Celery Tray by 1901 [Industry]
Lorraine 28 Vase by 1905 [Industry]
Odd 29 Loving Cup by 1901 [Industry]
Kensington 30 Punch Bowl, 2pc  

Meriden Old Irish Ferner

Pedestal rosebowl cut by Hawkes in the Brunswick pattern. Other pieces in Brunswick are pictured on booklet pages 11, 13 and 14. Motifs used to compose this design include beading between slender elongated flutes, chains of hobstars and flutes. The foot carries a hobstar. 7” tall, 5 ½” diameter. See Hawkes 1902 catalog pp. 74, 195; Pearson Encyclopedia I p. 80; or Flash Card set 2, card 56..

Listed patterns not pictured in the booklet are:

Pattern Name Page Shape Year Introduced
Argyle 20    
Berkshire 20    
Cambridge 20    
Chrysanthemum 20    
Cyprus 20    
Devonshire 20    
Empress 20    
Festoon 20    
Hobnail 20    
Kimberly 17    
Madison 17    
Nautilus 18   by 1901 [Industry]
Oriental 19   by 1901 [Industry]
Russian 20    
Strawberry and Fan 21   by 1893 [Industry]
Thistle 22   by 1893 [Industry]
Tunis 23    
Versailles 23   by 1901 [Industry]
Washington 25    
Yeddo 26   by 1901 [Industry]

An earlier version of the above pattern information was prepared January, 2002 by Don Kosterman for distribution with LABAC Cycle #2.

Hawkes Festoon Bowl

Round bowl cut by Hawkes in the Festoon pattern, mentioned on p. 21 but not pictured in this booklet. Festoon was patented in 1897 and remains a highly collectable design. Hawkes produced Festoon with and without the fine miter outline and the fans. Both 20 and 24-point hobstars were used in the design. Central hobstar in an octagon, surrounded by sixteen smaller hobstars filling a flashed star configuration of major miters. Ring of large hobstars under the scalloped rim. 9 ¼” rim outer diameter, 3 ¾” tall. See Pearson Encyclopedia III p. 201; New Revi p. 165; Complete p. 84; or Flash Card set 2, card 78.

References:

[Industry] Spillman, Jane S., The American Cut Glass Industry, T. G. Hawkes and his Competitors, Antique Collector's Club, 1996.

 

Rob Smith
July, 2014