We bought ours when Mikasa was 'last chance' remaindering them out.

Its a good quality 'everyday-fancy' set of tableware.  

The bookcase is US normal 1910 era design.  We like the Craftsman, as it is called here, furniture and between inheriting some and buying the rest - before it became popular and prices skyrocketed - we have quite a bit of it.  Looks great in our 1910 era mud hut adobe home.


She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre