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[Bats_Entertainment]

As mentioned above, they marketed butterfly willow bats as their top of the range.

[t2ylo]

Could it be this one?

[AJ2014]

No bat maker sold their butterfly stained bats as their top range! There will be few butterfly bats but not solely butterfly bats in their top range
White willow dominates to ranges.
Cricket Bat Company had their butterfly range but their more expensive top range consisted of beautiful white willow.

[Bats_Entertainment]

Classic Bat Company did sell butterfly as their flagship model. As stated above, I believe their bats were made by Warsop Stebbing.

[AJ2014]

Classic Bat Company did sell butterfly as their flagship model. As stated above, I believe their bats were made by Warsop Stebbing.

I'm sure you've not seen their catalogues!

[Bats_Entertainment]

I'm sure you've not seen their catalogues!

Have you? Did they even have catalogues? They were a small company that ceased to exist about twenty years ago.

[More Glue Than Wood]

chris broad using one after he moved back to Gloucestershire sometime in the 1990s (the guy that owned Classic Bat played for Keynsham Cricket club between Bath and Bristol - as did Trescothick)

[More Glue Than Wood]

tresocthick using classic bat - not sure if it is a butterfly bat - but he has the butterfly gloves on:

[Bats_Entertainment]

I think a young Trescothick is pictured with one in the inside cover of his autobiography.

Both the butterfly and Warsop information is knowledge I will have acquired here. Obviously things said here aren't always correct; but I think I mostly know which people are trustworthy and reliable.

[Bats_Entertainment]

chris broad using one after he moved back to Gloucestershire sometime in the 1990s (the guy that owned Classic Bat played for Keynsham Cricket club between Bath and Bristol - as did Trescothick)

If you listen to that picture hard enough you'll probably be able to hear young Stuart throwing his toys out of the pram.

[AJ2014]

Have you? Did they even have catalogues? They were a small company that ceased to exist about twenty years ago.

See you got trust issues on here!
Yes, I was in Amsterdam those days and was looking at their online catalogue! They were expensive bats! And they looked really very good!

[Bats_Entertainment]

I very much doubt they ever had a website.

[Tom]

Classic Bat Company went bust in 1997. What kind of website did they have back then?

[Bats_Entertainment]

Classic Bat Company went bust in 1997. What kind of website did they have back then?

Exactly.

[billyb]

@AJ2014 is correct. They did have a website, @Bats_Entertainment and @Tom.

How do I know this? Because the Founder and Director lists it as such on his LinkedIn profile:

� Set up a new sports brand, which had worldwide publicity for the �Double Sided� cricket bat including front page of The Times, Daily Telegraph plus most nationals and trade press. TV coverage on News at 5.45, Sky Sports; radios 1,2,4,5 and World Service.

� Exported internationally through a network of agents, competing with major brands such as Slazenger.

� Endorsed by Sir Garfield Sobers, Chris Broad and Marcus Trescothick; also used by Brian Lara, Kevin Pietersen, Gordon Greenidge and Simon Jones.

� First Cricket Equipment Company in the world on the Internet with its own web site.

� Finalist in the HTV �You�re The Boss� television competition judged by Institute of Directors.

| Director | Chairman | Founder |