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Sir Don Bradman's Baggy…
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Sir Don Bradman's Baggy Green 'The Don's' Iconic Baggy Green From India's First International Cricket Tour. Australian Baggy Green Test cap of dark green wool, with coat-of-arms depicting the symbols of commerce, agriculture, migration and mining within the Southern Cross, supported by a kangaroo and an emu and surmounted by a rising sun, worked in gold, silver, blue and red coloured cotton thread, scroll with 'Australia' motto and date '1947-48' beneath, maker's label sewn inside crown 'Farmer's/ Sydney' inscribed 'Don Bradman' in ink (possibly reinked by a previous owner), sun faded and worn, some insect damage, some loss to edge of peak, right hand edge of peak coming away, peak broken within fabric , [1947-1948]. Provenance: Sir Donald Bradman (1908-2001), given to Pankaj 'Peter' Kumar Gupta (1898-1971), Indian Tour Manager in 1948. Probir Kumar Sen (1926-1970), wicket-keeper and his nephew-in-law, passed to a fellow cricketer in India by Sen prior to his death. Ludgrove's, Melbourne, 23 February 2003. Private Collection; on display at The Bradman Museum, Bowral, New South Wales, Australia, 2010-February 2023.
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