I’ve had two of these for probably about 5 years, and they are beautiful.  And I have always taken great care with them, only hand washing and putting them away each year in their original boxes for storage.  But this year I’m starting to see the red band come off the bottom and one has a fracture at the handle so I was afraid to use it this year.  So a little disappointed they haven’t held up better considering they are only used a couple of times each year.  Very pretty filled with eggnog though.