One of the new attendees at last year Carder Steuben Club’s Symposium was Lisa Ackerman, an antique dealer from Orange, California. Lisa was not a Carder collector, but just was looking for ways to educate herself to serve her for the general antique trade. Well, Lisa came to learn and she loved what she was seeing, and in turn she made a great impact and became an integral part of the group. If you noticed, when Gazette’s go out, Lisa frequently is a participant and responder. Well, Lisa is returning to this year’s Symposium and asked whether she could make a pitch for a marriage of a Hawkes bottle with a stopper. With all of Lisa’s enthusiasm, well how could be refuse? So, here it is.

Hi Alan,
Thank you for your willingness to post my tilting-at-windmills request.
Have you a stopper for my bottle? I am hoping that perhaps some of the attendees might have a spare stopper laying around that might fit a Hawkes French Dressing bottle we recently got in. From the picture below, you’ll see that it was one of many made by the company. Hawkes patented it and I’m sure the folks at Good Season’s had it in mind when they churned out all those little glass bottles with the green plastic tops in the 1970s! The bottle here has no stopper.

The bottle is shown above with a slightly smaller version of itself. This smaller bottle does have a stopper and you can see that the stopper which fits it, (also with the acid mark for Hawkes) has a mushroom top to it. I’ve also seen examples online with sterling caps on the crystal stoppers.
Finding a stopper that fits is a challenge, of course, as the stoppers were individually ground. But since I am going back to the Land of Hawkes, (as well as Steuben), I figured I would ask.
This same shape was also made by Steuben, as there is one shown on our Club’s website http://brokenshards.homestead.com/Hawkes.html .
If you have Jane Shaddel Spillman’s book, The American Cut Glass Industry -T.G. Hawkes and his competitors, there is a great picture, in chapter six I believe, with one of these Hawkes bottles sitting on a cardboard store display stand.
Thank you for your time in looking! 🙂 Lisa