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SYDNEY: An Australian businessman has purchased Donald Bradman s first baggy green Test cap for 450,000 Australian dollars (USD 340,000) at an auction, the second-highest price paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia.
Peter Freedman, the founder of Rode Microphones who earlier this year paid 9 million Australian dollars ($6.8 million) at an auction for a guitar used by Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain, plans to tour Bradman s Test debut cap around Australia.
The price for Bradman s 1928 Australia cap sits behind the $1,007,500 ($760,000) paid at an auction for Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne s Test cap earlier this year the world-record price for an item of cricket memorabilia, auction officials said.
Australian cricketer Bradman s test cap sells for $340,000
FILE - This Feb. 1938, file photo shows Donald George Bradman, captain of the Australian cricket team to tour England. An Australian businessman has purchased Donald Bradman s first baggy green test cap for 450,000 Australian dollars ($340,000) at auction, the second-highest price paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia. (AP Photo/File) December 22, 2020 - 6:22 AM
SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian businessman has purchased Donald Bradmanâs first baggy green test cap for 450,000 Australian dollars ($340,000) at auction, the second-highest price paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia.
Peter Freedman, the founder of Rode Microphones who earlier this year paid 9 million Australian dollars ($6.8 million) at an auction for a guitar used by Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, plans to tour Bradmanâs test debut cap around Australia.
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Sir Donald Bradman s test debut baggy green has sold for just short of half a million dollars.
Australian businessman Peter Freedman has purchased Sir Donald Bradman s first baggy green cap for A$450,000 (NZ$481,869), the second-highest price ever paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia. Freedman, the founder of Rode Microphones who earlier this year paid $9 million (NZ$9.6m) to win an auction for a guitar used by Kurt Cobain, plans to tour Bradman s test debut cap around Australia. The price for Bradman s 1928 Australia cap sits behind the A$1,007,500 (NZ$1,078,851) paid at auction for Shane Warne s test cap earlier this year – the world record price for an item of cricket memorabilia.
Freedman, the founder of Rode Microphones who earlier this year paid $9m to win an auction for a guitar used by Kurt Cobain, plans to tour Bradman’s Test debut cap around Australia.
The 1928 Bradman cap price eclipses the $425,000 paid for the Australia’s great’s 1948 baggy green at a 2003 auction.
“Sir Don Bradman is an Aussie legend,” Freedman said on Tuesday. “Not only as one of our greatest talents on the sporting field and one of the most revered athletes of all time, but as an icon of Australian fortitude and resilience.
“All too often, memorabilia such as this ends up spending its life on the wall of some boardroom or in some basement bar of a well-heeled sports fanatic. I want as many people to enjoy it as possible.