Antique American Cut Glass - T.G. Hawkes and Others / In-Depth Book

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THE AMERICAN CUT GLASS INDUSTRY – T.G. Hawkes and His Competitors
by Jane Shadel Spillman, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1996/2001.
”There are 512 illustrations of glass pieces, catalog pages, advertisements, and old documents, including 80 color plates.  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, Hawke’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.”
This comprehensive book covers by chapter:  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; Bibliography; and Index.
Heavy 8.6” x 11” hardback with dust cover in very good+ condition.  320 pages.
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