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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Chalkie on November 10, 2016, 05:51:00 PM
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Picked up this Classic Bat Company 'Rapier' earlier this week, was an impulse buy as I liked the stickers. Can't find out much On CBC other than a couple of threads on here that seem to focus on the Butterfly model, and sounds like they closed down around 10 yrs ago.
This one is a lovely traditional shape with nice stickers, a fairly thick handle and only weighs 2lb 7.5. It's in pretty good condition for its age and looks like decent willow, although it's a little difficult to tell as there seems to be a factory applied lacquer all over the bat which has crazed on the face due to use (see last photo).
(http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o744/alasdairwhite/IMG_1187_zpskxelxsrj.jpg) (http://s1341.photobucket.com/user/alasdairwhite/media/IMG_1187_zpskxelxsrj.jpg.html)
(http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o744/alasdairwhite/IMG_1188_zpshu4fqdzv.jpg) (http://s1341.photobucket.com/user/alasdairwhite/media/IMG_1188_zpshu4fqdzv.jpg.html)
(http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o744/alasdairwhite/IMG_1189_zps0ttkgsh0.jpg) (http://s1341.photobucket.com/user/alasdairwhite/media/IMG_1189_zps0ttkgsh0.jpg.html)
(http://i1341.photobucket.com/albums/o744/alasdairwhite/IMG_1190_zpsvclw0fuh.jpg) (http://s1341.photobucket.com/user/alasdairwhite/media/IMG_1190_zpsvclw0fuh.jpg.html)
I would like some advice please - I don't plan to use it, so is this one that would be a good addition to any respectable bat collection so I should hang on to it, or am I best off refurbishing (around the stickers) and popping it on a selling site?
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If you plan to sell on, I wouldn't refurb it.
Great find.
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GREAT find mate in the day it was either "sponsorship" of them or CENTURION
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Made by Warsop?, used to be based in Keynsham down my neck of the woods.
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GREAT find mate in the day it was either "sponsorship" of them or CENTURION
Wish I kept my centurions!
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Hard to find any trace online, but they're definitely still going (I assume) as a lad I know bought one new last winter. Always seem to be spoken well of around the Bristol/North Som neck of the woods from years back, no idea if there's enough of a following to get a good price for a collector now though. Looks a nice bat although lacquer is weird.
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Chris Broad used them and they sponsored Tresco early doors in his Keynsham days.
The butterfly mmmm
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Worthy addition to bat collection?
No.
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Their Butterfly was a great bat back in 95 . Their 'sponsorship' program was b.s though .
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Their Butterfly was a great bat back in 95 . Their 'sponsorship' program was b.s though .
Of course it was so was Centurions too...
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Worthy addition to bat collection?
No.
Oh, look.
Another alarmingly positive and constructive contribution to a thread!
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I have heard it said that these were made by Warsop.
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Made by Warsop?, used to be based in Keynsham down my neck of the woods.
Hard to find any trace online, but they're definitely still going (I assume) as a lad I know bought one new last winter. Always seem to be spoken well of around the Bristol/North Som neck of the woods from years back, no idea if there's enough of a following to get a good price for a collector now though. Looks a nice bat although lacquer is weird.
Small address sticker on the back says - Classic Bat Company - 53 High Street, Keynsham.
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Small address sticker on the back says - Classic Bat Company - 53 High Street, Keynsham.
That doesn't mean that was where it was made, does it?
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That doesn't mean that was where it was made, does it?
Take M&H, TONs of things to suggest they aren't, but the sticker says "made in England" ;)
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That doesn't mean that was where it was made, does it?
I don't recall saying that was where the bat was made.
Nothing on the bat says made in England. Others (including you) have suggested that they may have been made by Warsop
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I remember this lot from the early 90s - when they made a double faced bat. Quite what they thought the idea was I have no idea, but they proved that it was *entirely* possible to make a bat that picked up 6oz heavier than its literal weight!