b'71ALEXANDER DICKA Colonial Australian silver christening mug, with engraved circular banding to the body, a round barbed handle, sitting on a collet foot base, with engraved monogram E.C., circa 1835,stamped with A.D. to base,8.5cm high, 222 grams.PROVENANCELawsons, Australian History, Fine Decorative Arts & Jewellery, Sydney, February 2016, Lot 8.Alexander Dick (1799 - 1843) arrived in Australia aboard the Portland in November 1824. He was a free settler and by April 1826 he was advertising his own business at 104 Pitt Street, Sydney. A highly important early Colonial silversmith, Dicks colourful career is well described in Early Australian Silver: The Houstone Collection by J.M. Houstone [Sydney, Halstead Press, 2007] at pp.56-67, including illustrations of two mugs, very similar to the present piece.$6,00010,0001'