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Bradman Baggy Green fetches record price
- On Monday, one of Sir Donald Bradman's Baggy Green caps sold for $460,000 at Lloyds Auctions, setting the highest price for a Bradman cap to an anonymous Australian collector.
- The cap, given by Sir Donald Bradman to S.W. Sohoni, stayed in one family for more than 75 years before Sohoni's family decided last year to share it publicly.
- Inscribed `D.G. Bradman` and `S.W. Sohoni`, the cap remained in good condition, never publicly displayed, and spent over 70 years in Mumbai as one of just 11 known Baggy Greens.
- Lloyds Auctions said the buyer intends to have the cap placed on public display in a prominent Australian museum; the Baggy Green will remain in Australia but the museum is unrevealed.
- The sale positions Bradman material alongside other major memorabilia results such as a $1,007,500 Warne cap and a $450,000 1928 Bradman cap, underscoring Bradman's national icon status and rarity of era caps.
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Bradman scores again as Baggy Green fetches record price
A baggy green cap worn by Sir Donald Bradman in Australia's 1947 test series against India has fetched $460,000 at auction. The sale of this rare piece of Australian sporting heritage and history is not quite at the level of the sale of Shane Warne's test cap, which went for just over a million in 2020 to raise money for the Australian Red Cross following the 2019 Black Saturday bushfires. But auctions like this offer a glimpse into another worl…
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