When I received this item, there was broken glass outside of the plastic bag that the percolator was wrapped in but inside the box. Strange. Upon opening I noticed that the lid knb/view glass was broken on the inside and there were a few pieces of glass inside the pot. This is worrisome because one must pull on this glass knob to open the tightly fitting lid. If the glass knob were to break at this point, one would have some good lacerations on their fingers. This is poor engineering and quality control by foreign companies. I have seen this problem reported in several other reviews.