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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 18

China 1856-60, 4 clasps, China 1842, Fatshan 1857, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1858 (11 Co. Willm. Goss. R.M.), contemporarily engraved naming, pawnbroker's mark to obverse, claw a little loose, first clasp with neat repairs to carriage, nearly very fine

Provenance:
DNW, March 2002.

William Goss was born at Plymouth in February 1821 and given his age could have served in the First Opium War (not upon the roll by Captain Douglas Morris, although this is not an exhaustive list). He is noted upon Amethyst in 1854, serving with No. 11 (Plymouth) Company during the latter campaign.

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Estimate
£400 to £600

Starting price
£320