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New Zealand Tablet, 21 August 1913, Page 47

A portion of the Trapnell collection of Bristol porcelain was sold recently at Christie’s (in London), and included the famous Edmund Burke tea-pot, with some other pieces of the service. About thirty years ago the tea-pot was sold for about £l5O, and six or seven years ago it realised £SOO. The .tea-pot and service was the other day put up in one lot, and, after brisk bidding, was sold for 1450 guineas. A great congregation, numbering from 60,000 to 80,000 people, gathered in Rockfeller Park, Cleveland, to attend the open air military Mass, arranged by the Knights of St. John. The scene recalled the ages of faith, and as the cannon boomed at the elevation, the uniformed Knights who formed a guard of honor about the altar tent, presented arms, while every head was reverently bowed.