I bought a dozen monochrome CE cups off eBay about 5 years ago. Friends, neighbours, aunties who drop in for a brew all remark on them.
I recently lost about a quarter of my crockery stock as a result of a ceiling collapse (120 years worth of accumulated lathe, plaster, dust and cob webs came acrashin' down). My dozen CE cups escaped unscathed. The shattered crockery I could care less about