Medals from the Collection of the late Roy Painter

Three: Lieutenant T. G. Price, Royal Navy

Baltic 1854-55 (T. G. Price Midmn. H.M.S. Prince Regent) contemporary engraved naming; China 1857-60, 3 clasps, Fatshan 1857, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1858 (T. G. Price Midmn. H.M.S. Niger) contemporary engraved naming; New Zealand 1845-66, reverse dated 1860 to 1861 (T. G. Price. Midmn. H.M.S. Niger) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (3) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Roy Painter.

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Thomas G. Price was born at Ross, Hereford, in June 1841. He served as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy in the campaigns in the Baltic, China and New Zealand, and passed for Lieutenant on 10 December 1861.