Bradman baggy green sold at auction for nearly $500,000

Don Bradman's 1948 cap sold for $425,000, one from the previous series has now gone for $479,700. (Julian Smith/AAP PHOTOS)

The combination of Sir Donald Bradman's fabled brilliance and the baggy green's near-mythical status has persuaded an Australian to part with nearly half-a-million dollars for one of the Don's Test caps.

Unlike modern Australian players the Test cricketers of Bradman's era wore a different cap for each series, so the one worn by Bradman during the 1947-48 home summer against India is far from unique, but it has nevertheless sold at auction for $479,700, a record for a cap worn by the great batter.