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Any Bradbury experts out there?
« on: May 10, 2017, 08:56:03 PM »
Looking at buying the below bat but it has no grade sticker or anything on it. Does anybody know from the looks of the pics the rough age and potential grade it may have been?




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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2017, 08:59:55 PM »
I think @Hoover is the best person to ask
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2017, 09:00:36 PM »
Hoover is your man
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2017, 09:08:50 PM »
Also should probably ask what thoughts are on the looks of the condition from the photos and what price people think it may/should be?
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2017, 09:12:37 PM »
Think that may be stickered...
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2017, 11:29:47 PM »
It has to be 2006 ish, in good nick for 10 years old. Genuine Bradbury's from the last 20 years have an embossed logo, usually on the edge, stamped in. There was a rogue retailer that imported bats from Pakistan and labelled them with this label design and sold them when Bradbury returned to Oz in 2006.  As for market price, if this is a genuine Bradbury, it would have been the basic model at around £100.
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2017, 05:24:08 AM »
Thing is, the sticker on the lower back is square - on real ones it was cut around the lettering.
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2017, 06:12:04 AM »
Quote from: Hoover on May 10, 2017, 11:29:47 PM
It has to be 2006 ish, in good nick for 10 years old. Genuine Bradbury's from the last 20 years have an embossed logo, usually on the edge, stamped in. There was a rogue retailer that imported bats from Pakistan and labelled them with this label design and sold them when Bradbury returned to Oz in 2006.  As for market price, if this is a genuine Bradbury, it would have been the basic model at around £100.

Can I ask what sort of an embossed logo?@Hoover
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2017, 01:56:44 PM »
Cheers for all the responses. I decided to bite the bullet and give it a try. I'm going to pick up on Saturday morning so will let you know how it goes from there.
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2017, 12:28:41 AM »
Look on www.bradburycricket.com.
All the bats have the "Bradbury Logo "embossed on each edge.
To buy "non genuine" products is to support the "Theft of IP".
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2017, 06:53:17 AM »
Understand and completely agree @Hoover . This bat is part of a bundle of cricket equipment that is being sold (softs, bag, clothes) the rest of it looks genuine and tbh the woman that is selling it appears to have either split from or lost her husband and doesn't know a great deal about the equipment.

For the price I am paying if it does happen to not be genuine I can 100% assure you the stickers will be removed by me and it will not be future sold as a genuine Bradbury.
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2017, 08:36:28 AM »
Quote from: Hoover on May 12, 2017, 12:28:41 AM
Look on www.bradburycricket.com.
All the bats have the "Bradbury Logo "embossed on each edge.
To buy "non genuine" products is to support the "Theft of IP".


Ok, I thought that was a fairly recent thing to combat the flood of stickers on eBay.
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2017, 09:14:46 AM »
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2017, 10:02:52 PM »
Back sticker doesn't look to be in the right place (too close to the edge) and the front sticker isn't quite central either. See the pic, it looks to be more on the right side of the bat judging by the very top of sticker, hence I'd say it's some stickers that have been bought and poorly applied
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Re: Any Bradbury experts out there?
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2017, 01:29:20 PM »
So picked this up this morning, the edges aren't big enough to have a stamp on them so there isn't one. The rest of the kit i got with it would be inline with somebody who would buy a Bradbury as opposed to a major brand, also looks really well used so I'd wonder why it wouldn't be genuine. Anyway extra pics below. As always opinions welcome.

Should also add having tapped an all up on this the response is excellent of an extended proportion of the blade which surprised me.













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