Description: A rare and important Australian silver fiddle pattern soup ladle, Alexander Dick, New South Wales, circa 1837-1838
the handle engraved with the initials 'C.B', hallmarked 'A. DICK', lion passant, leopard's head, 'E' and monarch's head
242 gms total weight of silver, 32 cm long
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, South Australia
OTHER NOTES
For an example of identical hallmarks to the present piece, see J.B. Hawkins,
Nineteenth Century Australian Silver, Antique Collectors Club, Suffolk, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 76, pl. 42 (illustrated, another example)