Sir Don Bradman's Iconic Baggy Green from India Tour

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.