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.
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.
Section ASection BSection C |
Section DSection E |
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.
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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.
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