Great throne I sat on one for years. Solid as hell for the time. It was my first piece of Rogers gear. It sat behind a Ludwig kit. The wing nuts and bolts on the bottom are for a seat back that was available. I'm guessing late 60's early 70's, that's when I had mine. I went from one of those crazy three legged tripod type that was always a little unstable to one of these. I finely broke the cast part that the threaded post went into and after ten years or so the padding compressed and the inside bolt heads were hard on my butt. I still have it somewhere. I found a second one that had the later Memory-Lok shaft not the threaded shaft but the seat part was the same. Wore the shaft out on it and it has a 2000's era Ludwig seat with back rest and shaft (that I broke the leg on) crammed into the base. A guitar player still sits on it in my studio. What do you want for it?

Hey, Boscoe!

THANKS for the input and the information provided. I just sent you a PM.

That's a Swiv-O-matic era Rogers Samson throne, very heavy duty. I had one for years until the cast collar broke at one of the ears (one too many times of over-tightening it on my part I'm afraid). By the time this happened, Rogers was gone and out of business, and I had no luck finding the parts locally. This was pre-internet, pre-ebay days if course. I ended up buying a new Tama Titan throne to replace it, but kept it around for a while hoping to eventually find the replacement parts. Never did, unfortunately. I did end up "repairing" it by having the opposite end of the height shaft threaded all the way up to the factory threads with a more standard screw-thread size to fit a large nut to the shaft to work as a height adjuster. It worked pretty well for a spare throne, but I eventually relelgated it to the woodshed for something to sit on in front of the workbench. Sold it last year on ebay since I no longer have that woodshed, or house for that matter.....