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An Estate Sale Find
Looking at your pictures all I can say is "Wow". What a deal. Back in the day many people ordered or bought sets without floor toms to save money, ei...
7 years agoMatching Serial Numbers
The badges were just thrown into a bin on the production line and workers were obviously not required to use them in any particular order (Ludwig did...
7 years agoGretsch Wine Red Pearl
From KCDrumDad...
7 years agoBronze Mist Lacquer
I've only run across that finish a couple of times through the years and both times it was on a Pioneer snare drum. It's very cool in person with thos...
8 years agoanother "what have I got here?"
The70's catalogs even showed the Hollywood in Champagne sparkle. Notice the stands included with the set. BTW: Ludwig only made one kind of drum at t...
8 years agoHelp determining brand/model
Lugs appear to be Slingerland but the hoops are regular triple flange instead of Slingerland stick-savers with the turned in upper flange. Throw off d...
8 years agoanother "what have I got here?"
Don't throw out those flat based stands as they are worth pretty decent money and are original to a Hollywood outfit. Pity that someone tried to creat...
8 years agoanother "what have I got here?"
From OddBall...
8 years agoLudwig Jazzette - How many exist?
I have no idea how many there might be but 30-50 in the world seems ridiculously low for a set that remained in Ludwig's catalog for a decade. If they...
8 years agoNeed help with this one gretsch drums
I'm thinking post war (after 1945) due to the die cast hoops on the snare...but I don't know for sure when they went to those.
8 years agoLudwig super classic time capsule
I got a similar "time capsule" set with A. Zildjian cymbals a couple years back for $900...so you just never know.
8 years agoHelp Identifying Stand
I think the bottom section is W & A which may have been sold as Gretsch or Ludwig and your top two sections are late 60's Slingerland. At least I have...
8 years agoGretsch 4157 Silver/white wrap questions
From jimjam64...
8 years agoGretsch 4157 Silver/white wrap questions
We'll need pictures and more information to answer your questions. Gretsch has used the same model numbers for decades in some cases so that doesn't r...
8 years agoNeed help with this one gretsch drums
The one tom looks to have once had a tacked on bottom head and then was converted to a double tension tom using tube lugs and a wooden hoop. I'm guess...
8 years ago