This is truly magnificent tableware! The quality is unsurpassed...the very reason Viking Cruises has chosen it to be the perfect setting for their guests.  I am sorry, however, to find it necessary to return this lovey tableware because I find it too large and too heavy for my ( arthritic) hands to manage. The service  on the Viking Longship was more dainty and lighter in weight than that I ordered and received. I am soooo sorry! The pattern is quite the same; only the size and weight demand I return this magnificent tableware. Thank you for offering it at such a more than reasonable reduction of the original price.