Shines like the sun! They are actually a little dusty in that pic! You should see um when they are really polished up. CoW rules!

So I have the drums in my possession now and looked a little closer at the badges...they're pointy b/o badges which would likely make them early 70s but yet the wrap is held together with rivets which was a early 80s thing. Does this make sense? Oh, and the shells are 6 ply. Was there a hidden batch of pointy badges that surfaced in the 80s?

Pointy badges lasted until maybe 1977 or possibly 1978. Everything on that set points to late 70's as far as I can tell. I think the six ply shell came out around 1976 sometime.

Thanks wfl, I think what's throwing me off is the rivets in the wrap. My understanding is this was an extreme late 70s into early 80s feature.

I ordered a new Ludwig BB in the summer of 1979 and received the snare with my new Gretsch kit in the fall. I still have the BB and it has a B/O pointy badge with a serial number that starts with 199xxxx. What are the serial numbers?

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