Wow!! Museum quality? Is that a marching snare? I see that loop on the side.

Damn I was bidding on that one too! Nice score Mike. Good to see someone in the tribe got it.

I suspect that one could march with this drum...

Mike Curotto

Oh, cool! I have a couple of old snare drums and they both have the wire-wound composition, but I didn't think they were silk. They look like regular cotton shoelaces with that super-fine wide coil of wire. That's really interesting.

Now I need to know more....

Were there ANY production drums that actually used catgut (which was really rawhide, if I remember correctly)? I mean, there weren't any real "cat" gut snare wires ever...were there? I thought they just got that term because of how the grouping of snares resembled the sinuous muscles of a cat. If not, then poor kittah!

I have the same drum for sale and curious of its value. https://stlouis.craigslist.org/msg/5410629213.html

Any Duplex is a treat to see. This is one off the charts. Thanks for the pics!!

Info on snares good to know as well.

Creighton

These drums tend not to bring the big bucks, because there are relatively few collectors of them. Yours is in excellent condition, with the exception of the blown head. If I was going to sell it, I'd get that head re-tucked first by Rob Cook at rebeats.com. See if you can re-use the original hide (if it's torn, then he can replace it). Then I'd put it on eBay, so it is visible to a much larger audience. I'd expect to get $150-175 for it; maybe even two bills considering its condition.