Oh, like the prior owner installed modern "legs" on the floor Tom?

Thanks guys.My tendency is to want to re-paint the worn bass drum ring area. I know with guitars it hurts the value, its better to leave it all original. In this case I don't see it hurting the value. Mind you I really got them to play, not as some investment, but on the other hand I don't necessarily want to hurt their value or historic value.

All Ludwig drums were the same quality back then as far as the shells. The only lower priced drums were the Club Date series and they used the same shells but with center mount lugs and aren't really that different in any other significant way. Ludwig only made one type of shell and used it for everything. This even applies to the somewhat later Standard series drums.It was very common to order or buy a kit without a floor tom back then to save some money on the initial purchase. This was especially true for a young drummer just getting started. Often if the drummer continued playing he would later add on a new or used matching floor tom. That might be the case here. It's even plausible that all the drums were purchased "new" with either the original buyer later adding a matching floor tom that had been in a dealer's stock for a while (but still technically "brand new") or perhaps a dealer had the older floor tom (left over from someone buying the set without the floor tom) and then ordered up the remaining drums to make up another full set to sell. In that case all the drums could have been sold together even if they weren't "born" together. All silver sparkle (or whatever finish) Ludwigs of the era were more or less interchangeable with the exception being whether a small tom was drilled to sit on the right or left side of the bass drum (still the same drums just drilled differently for the bracket in relation to the badge placement).Back in those days nobody was obsessing about serial numbers and date stamps (or wood content, bearing edges, etc.) if the drums were the same color and matched well that was going to be the prime concern.That seems like a great price for that set if it's in good condition. I wouldn't worry too much about the floor tom being of slightly different vintage.