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Hawkes Twist Cut Crystal Wine Goblets (10) 5 5/16"

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Hawkes Twist Cut Crystal Wine Goblets (10) 5 5/16". Selling all 10, top quality American antique cut crystal. One has chip on foot, it's on the front right in the pics, the chip could be polished out. No other chips or cracks, beautiful scarce art deco pattern by an Important American Glass company. TW164

Thomas Gibbons Hawkes, born in County Cork, Ireland in 1846 to a prominent family with a glassworking heritage, emigrated to the United States in 1863. His career began as a foreman for glass factory Hoare and Daily in Brooklyn, New York moving with the company to Corning, New York in 1868.

Once in Corning, he soon opened his own cutting shop which was incorporated as T.G. Hawkes & Company in 1890. This on the heels of success the year before when Hawkes famously won acclaim and Grand Prize at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

Thomas Gibbons Hawkes European taste for sparkling cut glass at this time was emulated in the United States in what was called the Brilliant Cut Glass Period. Over 1,000 cutting shops were founded to meet the demand and T.G. Hawkes & Company flourished. The company was in operation for 82 years.
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      Hawkes Twist Cut Crystal Wine Goblets (10) 5 5/16". Selling all 10, top quality American antique cut crystal. One has chip on foot, it's on the front right in the pics, the chip could be polished out. No other chips or cracks, beautiful scarce art deco pattern by an Important American Glass company. TW164

      Thomas Gibbons Hawkes, born in County Cork, Ireland in 1846 to a prominent family with a glassworking heritage, emigrated to the United States in 1863. His career began as a foreman for glass factory Hoare and Daily in Brooklyn, New York moving with the company to Corning, New York in 1868.

      Once in Corning, he soon opened his own cutting shop which was incorporated as T.G. Hawkes & Company in 1890. This on the heels of success the year before when Hawkes famously won acclaim and Grand Prize at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

      Thomas Gibbons Hawkes European taste for sparkling cut glass at this time was emulated in the United States in what was called the Brilliant Cut Glass Period. Over 1,000 cutting shops were founded to meet the demand and T.G. Hawkes & Company flourished. The company was in operation for 82 years.

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