A Victorian sterling silver figural centre-piece with a semi-clad classical muse on a tripod leaf scroll base with presentation inscription 'To Edward Charles Cracknell by the Officers of the Electric Telegraph Department, News South Wales on his promotion to Superintendent of Telegraphs, Sydney 1861' by Stephen Smith & William Nicholson, London 1857, 43 cm high, 1500 grams, on an associated silver plate mirrored plateau, 29 cm diameter