This showed up the other day, in the photos it looked like rust on it.

Much to my relieve I used my thumb and smeared off a wonderful grimey spot on one of the lugs, it's not rust on the drum, just dirty. I think it will clean up pretty good.

I took a bunch of pics, I'm wondering if this seam looks correct for this drum, also there are 2 letters near the seam.

The badge grommet looks real long and there are washers to take up the space. Anyone see this before?

Also I read brass can look kind of green, the inside of the shell has a nice tint in the sun, pics don't quite pick it up.

And badges were placed on different sides of the same model drum once in awhile.

Thanks for any info! Warning; lots of pics!