Oh, it's had a Pearl Pipe Massacre done to it at some point. It looks like it's got a maple interior. Does it have a varnish on it or is it just raw wood? Raw wood would indicate early 60s and a varnished interior would indicate '68 -'69 right before they switched over to the blue olive badge. The latter would have serial numbers but it's possible your badge has serial numbers but you can't see them because they are filled in with paint.

Looks like it has a Sky Blue Pearl wrap under that paint. Too bad it's not all there.

You can try goof off or any paint remover you want as long as it doesn't attack brass. If you are going to do it while still attached to the drum, just try not to get it on the painted wrap. That could turn into a real mess. I would pull the badge and then strip it.

Your four small screws are for the original rail mount. The fourth one is next to one of the Pearl mount holes. The large hole could be for a shell through cymbal mount, although those weren't used on the classic drums. Only on the Club Dates, but someone could certainly had ordered one or had one installed at some point.

Nice find

Awesome thanks a lot!

Inside is raw wood and there aren’t any serial numbers on the badge. So 61’-63’ ish?

And thanks for clearing up the original holes-I see what you mean now. I intend to try my best at filling the others.

I can't tell by the pics if that one hole is a disappearing cymbal mount or not. Some of the early pre serial classic bass drums did use those. My pre serial New Yorker 12x22 has one. And like Thin Shell mentioned, mine is raw unvarnished maple interior.

Mike

Gotcha. I might just fill what may or may not be the cymbal mount hole.

As far as the 4 holes for the Tom mount-What kind of mount am I looking for here?

EDIT: Never-mind! Rail mount, correct?

I’d also like to ask, which spurs did this drum come with?

When I found it, it had Pearl legs which I assume extra holes had to be drilled for. Can anyone tell me which of the three holes are original? Pic below.