Rare Antique Hawke Crystal Highball Glasses Set Of 8

Rare and extremely heavy Hawkes Crystal Highball Glass Set. Set of 8 glasses Thomas Gibbons Hawkes, born in County Cork, Ireland in 1846 to a prominent family with a glass working 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.