Bradman cap may break auction record
Indo Asian News Service, December 01, 2008
Sydney, Dec 1(IANS): The `Baggy Green´ cap won by legendary Don Bradman on the 1948 `Invincibles´ Ashes tour has been placed an estimated price of $600,000 to $750,000 by its auctioneer and could well break the auction record.
`I defy anybody who tells me anything in Australian sport that is more important or has a higher status,´ auctioneer Charles Leski was quoted as saying the Sydney Morning Herald. The auction is set to take place Dec 15.
`This is the single most valuable item we've ever auctioned - sporting, Australiana, across the board,´ Leski said.
The cap is accompanied by a memo signed by Bradman in 1996, declaring `on his twelfth birthday I gave Richard Robins one of my Aust. XI caps´.
Robins´s father, Walter, played 19 Tests for England and was described by Bradman as his `best pal in the cricket world´ - despite bowling the great man with a googly to which Bradman offered no shot in the 1930 Trent Bridge Test.
Serisier, a 47-year-old retired banker from Coffs Harbour, bought it prior to auction in 2003, amid a campaign to return it to Australia.
A Bradman bat was recently sold for a world record $145,000.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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