I had just inherited a wonderful collection of Spode Christmas Tree dinner ware which had  taken my younger sister a lifetime to collect.  I needed a few more place settings and I was shocked at how in expensive they were...should have been a BIG RED FLAG!  The ones I received were made in CHINA, not England as the rest of the collections was.  Very Disappointed.  They match OK but I still wished I would have been aware they were made in China, the sales information led me to believe they were made in Great Britain.