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Spillman, Jane Shadel.

The American cut glass industry : T.G. Hawkes and his competitors / Jane Shadel Spillman.

[Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK] ; [Wappingers' Falls, NY] : Antique Collectors' Club ; [Corning, N.Y.] : Corning Museum of Glass, ©1996.

©1996

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

This authoritative book presents new information about the late 19th- and early 20th-century cut glass industry in Corning, New York. The recent discovery of a mass of archival material relating to T.G. Hawkes and Company, including thousands of letters, has enabled the author to research business practices in the glass industry in more detail than ever before.

Using this new information, together with her already considerable knowledge, Jane Shadel Spillman has produced the first book on American cut glass to go beyond the glass and examine the workings of the industry itself, including labor relations, sources of blanks, special orders for the White House, Hawkes's representation at the Paris world's fair in 1889, and communication between the cut glass industry and silver manufacturers such as Gorham and Tiffany.

Competition and cooperation between the glass cutting firms are also highlighted, and considerable attention is paid to other companies, such as J. Hoare, H.P. Sinclaire, and O.F. Egginton.

Corning Museum of Glass -- Catalogs.

T.G. Hawkes & Co.

Cut glass -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Catalogs.

Cut glass -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Catalogs.

Glassware -- New York (State) -- Corning -- Catalogs.

Cut glass -- New York (State) -- Corning -- History -- 19th century.

Cut glass -- New York (State) -- Corning -- History -- 20th century.

Catalogs.

Corning Museum of Glass.

Includes bibliographical references (page 315) and index.

Introduction: The Cut Glass Industry and the Hawkes Archives -- John Hoare and the Beginning of Cut Glass in Corning -- Thomas Gibbons Hawkes, Entrepreneur -- Labor Relations in the Glass Industry -- T.G. Hawkes and C. Dorflinger & Sons -- Technical Matters -- Trademarks, Advertisements, and Brochures -- Methods of Selling Glass and Customer Relations -- Hawkes Patterns -- The Paris Exposition -- Special Orders -- for The White House and Others -- Hawkes and Hoare and Their Relationships with Gorham and Tiffany -- Eggington, Sinclaire, Steuben and other Firms.

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