Your enthusiasm deserves a special respect.

Well, you guys KNOW I'm smiling from ear-to-ear. :D Great story! It's probably one of my all-time favorite forum stories to reference whenever people start jabbing about the "value" of a drum. We all want a great deal, but, at the end of the day, we should not only get what we pay for, we should also want what we get. That's the real value, imo.

Wow! It sounds like you've found what the rest of us are searching for. Congrats!

That sure is a beautiful drum, LudwigDrummer! Great story too. I doubt I would have paid that much, but I haven't been looking for the perfect drum for 25 years either. However, I have overpaid for some things I really wanted because I didn't want them to get away. I'm sure we all have to some extent, that comes with the territory when you are passionate about something.

I hope you enjoy it for another 25+ years!

Please, do not take this as a negative comment, it is nothing more than my very own little pea-brained observation. This thread has the potential to kill the sale of all Oyster Blue Pearl, one of my absolute very favorite Ludwig colors, for the next 10 years to anyone but the understandably better off faction of enthusiasts and real collectors, Oddball will likely, and has chimed in tat he wants prices to rise significantly, let alone the real collectors.

As far as I am concerned, it will do noting but kill the market we have now for affordable instrumentation.

So I`m cruiseing at about 30 knots mind`n my own and,...pow,...white glow punches through the port side, goes clean through, ..out the starbbord and splashes a half mile over there somewhere !!

Xo says, WTF was that ??? I look over and say,...that`s Arty. and they`re use`n AP rounds !! He goes where did that come from,...I said,...over there !! He goes,... Who`s doing it ????

I says,...that`s jonnistix, doesn`t know what he`s do`n,...he should be use`n HE rounds !! He goes, Why`s he doing it ???? I go,..I don`t know, let`s ask him before we show six over six and make e`m sh*t bricks !!

Hey jonni,.....WTF ?? .....over....... !!

I'm very happy that you finally have the kit of your dreams. I hope the person with whom you made this financial deal with the devil can live with himself.

I agree with jonnistix, this is not good for the vintage market, it's collectors and players. Sales like this cause false inflation of prices.

One example: (True Story) There was a certain woman who was a singer, attending an auction, saw something that was just what she was looking for, a Biedermeyer chest I believe it was. Well, she fell in love with and saw that it was only $500, she was thrilled but worried that someone else would buy it out from under her. She wasn't having it, she had a plan. When the piece came up for bid, just as the Auctioneer was about to describe it to the audience she jumped up and shouted, "I bid $25,000!". Everyone was shocked and surprised for anyone to pay such an absurd amount for anything made by Biedermeyer (not very well made and nothing inspired in their design). She took her chest home where it sits to this day in the corner collecting dust, stuffed with blankets and old photo albums.

The following week price of Biedermeyer furniture rose over 500% world wide.

Paying $7,000 for what is essentially a $200 snare, in a now public sale, you've just lit the fuse to cause an explosion of prices on vintage drums, specifically this model and residually all Ludwig's. This will effect ALL of us.

Have I overpaid on certain items? Yes, so I can understand the motivation. Remember the saying "Gamble with your not, not over it"? You were obsessed about having this particular drum and had to have it at all cost and common sense. It's not like it was THE first drum Ludwig ever made in museum condition. It was just an ordinary snare.

I'm glad you found your Grail, enjoy. You've poisoned the water for the rest of us.

My 2 cents

You cap a round my way too and you`ll be meet`n Davey Jones !!

I sell on ebay often, then by some of this threads logic why isn't this reflected there on the world stage of ebay?, this snare drum in question? Ok then let me go another route, I sale vintage guitars, a prewar Martin acoustic or a Les Paul burst 1959 model is going to set you back $500,000 toward 1 million dollars really,

A Mary Ford 1961 Les Paul SG this was Les Pauls wife had her 1961 les Paul SG, sold by her nephew on of all things on Pawnshop star just recently for the meager sum of $90.000. This guitar is very well documented and the nephew even had the proper paperwork to prove just that. the Guitar shop that authenticated the Instrument stated it's probably a $250.000 or more guitar. that is a street price, had it gone to auction Who knows what it would of sold for. so by some of the posters logic on this thread then, that means real celebrity owned guitars are going to go Down in value??? No!!. every once in awhile an anomaly does come down the pike. that is what this snare drum was.