Australian cricketer Donald Bradman’s Test cap sold at auction

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Sir Donald Bradman’s first baggy green Test cap has been sold for 450&comma;000 Australian dollars &lpar;£253&comma;000&rpar; at auction&comma; the second-highest price paid for a piece of cricket memorabilia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Australian businessman Peter Freedman&comma; who earlier this year paid nine million Australian dollars &lpar;£5 million&rpar; at an auction for a guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain&comma; plans to tour Bradman’s Test debut cap around Australia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The price for Bradman’s 1928 Australia cap sits behind the 1&comma;007&comma;500 Australian dollars &lpar;£567&comma;000&rpar; paid at auction for Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne’s Test cap earlier this year – the world-record price for an item of cricket memorabilia&comma; auction officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bradman represented Australia for 20 years&comma; playing 52 Test matches from 1928 to 1948&comma; and is generally regarded as the world’s best ever cricketer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Knighted for his services to cricket in 1949&comma; he retired from Test cricket with a batting average of 99&period;94&comma; making his Test batting achievements nearly twice that of the nearest batsman in the longer version of the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sir Don Bradman is an Aussie legend&comma;” said Mr Freedman&comma; the founder of Rode Microphones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Not only as one of our greatest talents on the sporting field and one of the most revered athletes of all time&comma; but as an icon of Australian fortitude and resilience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have some exciting plans for the baggy green that will see it travel the country and shared with sports fans and cricketing communities&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The reason for the auction was related to criminal activity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The cap was presented to Bradman before his Test debut against England in November 1928 in Brisbane&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bradman gave the cap to a family friend&comma; Peter Dunham&comma; as a gift in 1959&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dunham&comma; who was Bradman’s neighbour in Adelaide&comma; South Australia&comma; was earlier this year jailed for fraud&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In May&comma; he was jailed for more than eight years for taking one million Australian dollars &lpar;£563&comma;000&rpar; from investors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of Dunham’s victims sought access to Bradman’s cap to help pay off the accountant’s debts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dunham’s estate was bankrupted&comma; with Bradman’s cap auctioned under instructions from the trustee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In June&comma; Mr Freedman purchased the acoustic guitar used by Cobain in Nirvana’s renowned unplugged performance in 1993&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Freedman’s bid for the 1959 Martin D18E acoustic guitar was the highest price ever paid at auction for a guitar&comma; officials for the Bradman auction said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11d80d332">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; 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