Bottom hoop is wrong on the 12"......

someone bent the BD spurs.......they should just be straight.........

The tom mount is an older Radio King mount........don't know why that is on there........

Even with the incorrect hoop, bent spurs, absence of floor tom, pieced together set, those are some fine drums. if you got them at a good price, and find a matching color Slingy floor tom of any vintage, they will be a terrific player's set. That bass drum may be from the mid 50's when the Radio Kings phased out, and Sound Kings phased in. The "brown" drum interior paint may have been an aftermarket addition. or, you might be looking at a dark mahogany innermost ply.

So if it is pieced together, should I sell them seperate? Is the bass drum original with that mount? I see no extra holes in the bass drum. Do you think I could get $500 for all of them?

I don't think its a "pieced together" set. The dates are too close on two of the drums. They were probably ordered as individual drums at the same time, by the original owner, who may have had a limited budget. Hence the "stageband" tom and the 6-lug Shelbyville snare. As far as the mount, it was probably ordered that way, as they were still available out of the catalog at the time. It was a cheaper mount than the rail mount.....again if one was on a budget, it was probably cheaper to order this kit this way than to buy a "set" out of the catalog.

I wouldn't sell them separate. I'd either keep them and play them, or sell them as a set. Although they are interesting, value won't be a whole lot no matter how you look at them. Unfortunately the market trend for Slingerland drums seems to be much lower $$ values than similar era Gretsch, Rogers, Camco or Ludwig, which I find odd as they are great sounding drums and are well made too.

Lower resale price than the brand you mentioned in the above post are all the more reason to love vintage Slingerlands. I am one of the vintage drummers who preferred Slingerland drums over Ludwig or Gretsch ever since i began playing a drum set in the 1950's. Rogers was always my co-favorite. In recent years, I have become imfatuated with Slinger/Leedy drums and Walberg & Auge.

Funny how people come to the forum to ask what its worth after they "just bought it" in order to sell it again aka flip it.....

The ebay auction for them hours later after posting the question here......

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1960s-Slingerland-Drum-Kit-NIce-/250845442292?pt=Vintgae_Drums_Percussion&hash=item3a678db0f4

Personally if I came across a nice looking/sounding kit like that for cheap, I'd keep it (for a little while anyway)....but that's just me.

As much as I love vintage Slingerland drums, I think that this guy is a dreamer by asking $599 for the bass and tom. No serious or even semi-informed Slingy lover would pay more than half that amount for those two pieces. I would offer $150--$200 at most. I feel somewhat exploited by an opportunist who asked advice, and then decided that he knew better than the more knowledgeable people offering advice. From now on, I will qualify the people asking advice to determine for what reasons they ask for the advice. If they are flippers, I will give my pricing advice based solely on what I would pay for the items. Just like on Antiques Road Show there is an insurance value and a real world selling price value. And, just like on Pawn Stars, there is perceived value to an end user and a selling price that are not the same.

I agree.......I feel cheap and used now.....LoLoLoLo

Ok, so we agree its not a cataloged set, however I still think that it came together as a set that someone ordered. They are all the same finish and appear to be not faded differently, and the fact that the drums have no extra holes in them along with what appears to be a factory fit radio king tom holder lead me to believe they came together as a set from the factory, in this case both Niles and Shelbyville. The drum companies back then were known to do whatever the customer wanted back then. The dates are just too close together that they didn't come together as a set.

Just because it wasn't offered as a cataloged set, doesn't mean it didn't come from the factory as a set. There are these things called "special orders" that the factories still take today......It stands to reason that they shipped what they had in stock in the ordered finish and made the rest to the customers order, also a common practice then as well as now.