Featured Hm. Could mine really be very early American glass?

This is in the MMA.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/2582

There's also one on EBay, but it hasn't got a broken pontil and it isn't as well moulded as mine.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155375939328

And this is what I bought today.

 

These look similar - https://pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2014-4w-jakob-pilgrim-glass-bennington-2002.pdf

 

Anyone on the forums read German?

 

There's a FaceBook page for Pilgrim Glass.

 

I do, would you believe. I'll go look, thank you.

 

You're welcome. Good luck.

 

I was going to say "I do, but so does the lady herself".

 

It does help!

I’ll see if the Pilgrim group confirms it, but that does look right. Funny how things travel, isn’t it.

 

How the heck a piece of Pilgrim would end up in the UK, or why....? Maybe in some GI family's household goods?

 

There’s a fair few tourists go to the USA, so it might be that, too.

 

Possible, and in the old days you used to have space to put something like that in a carry-on without the risk of having to check the bag and having it go smash.