LongRoll
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Please Read This It Will Help You Understand Dating These Drums
This is a quote from Harry Cangany Vintage Drum Historian, it is so right on.
OK, serial numbers. The serial numbers were mandated by the US Government in 1963 to be used by 1964 so that drums could be insured. No records were kept. Any listing of serial numbers by historians is always flawed. I have NOS never used badges given to me by the former owners of Rogers in Cleveland. The numbers were on badges (not on drums) and the badges were in piles at the factory. I was at the Covington factory where all Cleveland and Dayton Rogers drums were made. People assembling drums reached into the piles and took as they needed. Badge numbers may be a guide, but they are not foolproof, and hardly ever sequential.
Thanks Harry.
Bruce
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Designed2Play
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Re: Please Read This It Will Help You Understand Dating These Drums
What does it mean if you've got a sequential numbered kit then?
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6/27/2008, 6:35 pm
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Gary N
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Re: Please Read This It Will Help You Understand Dating These Drums
That it is special and not the Rogers norm. My purple kit in the photo section has serial numbers in order. Also, that means that it is no doubt a matched kit from the factory. Some thought was put into finishing it with numbers in order-good stuff that came together and should always stay like that. No random grabing of paper tags. I doubted the double 12s on my purple. If you look close by the grommet there are tiny pinholes on either side of it like there was an eagle badge at one point in time. Same script logos on all 4 drums 20/12/12/16 came together with numbers one after the other. A matched factory kit. Cool Rogers stuff. What cha got?
Peace, Gary
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Dan Coluccio
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Re: Please Read This It Will Help You Understand Dating These Drums
Hi,
It means you've got something that's fairly rare, even among kits that 'came together'.
By the way, just so you know, Bruce Felter is no longer with us. He was a Rogers man to the core...and his posts have been left here for posterity.
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Dan C.
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6/27/2008, 6:51 pm
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Re: Please Read This It Will Help You Understand Dating These Drums
Dan, you're so right! We here on the forum became aware of his death within a day or two. So to see his posts resurrected is always refreshing and a wonderful link to the past.
On another note, he was the keeper of the most progressive serial number guide and we are hoping that one day his widow, Cathy, will release it to a worthy member. You, or Jack...?
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