Trying this again - I had too many tabs open and accidentally deleted my answer.

Dorothy, you can find wholesale replacement prices for china at Replacements.com, where they list prices of individual pieces in a given line. Kovels.com probably charges to use the online price list, but if you visit a bookstore you might find something in the annual price list they publish. Photograph the page with your phone camera and have it handy for future reference. The library is likely to have the book, but several years old. Tastes change, and so do prices. And of course, what the guides list is not necessarily what the market will bear. And of course, check at eBay. A Limoges search on sold items comes up with over 1000 bits of information. You can sort this list to narrow the information down to your pattern.

The humidity is at 80% right now and showers are in the forecast after midnight. The storm headed this way is over Lubbock right now. Color me really tired of thunderstorms. This has been the wettest month ever recorded in North Texas, ever. Any time of year, any year. Yuck. I know the 1980 heat wave was remarkable, with 42 days in a row over 100^o. 2011 was a bad one, with the benchmark being the number of days over 105^o - not as many as in 1980. (I need to search for total records for the year, I'm finding stories from July and August 2011 that weren't at the end of the heat wave.) The argument over the years I've heard (and have made) about the badness of heat versus cold is that you can put on clothes to deal with the cold, but the heat is there and you can't do much about it. In the summer I set my AC at 80^o and run a ceiling fan and sleep with a sheet only. But now, with all of this wet, it is more penetrating because the temperatures are relatively cool and the air compressor in the AC (that removes moisture) isn't going to kick in unless you set it to a very low temperature. Then it is cool and clammy. Seattle is cooler as a climate goes, but generally it isn't this wet. Summers there are nice because the daytime temps aren't too high and it doesn't rain all of the time. Here right now is it warm and very wet, making it quite a miserable feeling. It is probably a typical tropical climate that someone else experiences all of the time and doesn't think much about it. It's all what you're used to.