WOW is right.I'd love to hear a soundfile of that cymbal.

So would I.

But the fact remains that those bidding didn't hear one either. Yet based on the sellers description alone, it went up to this astronomical price.

What is it about those cymbals with the Zildjian 'hollow logo' stamps that everyone goes crazy for?

Many of them sound great. They should be placed in the same league with the trans stamps in my opinion.

I have an 18" thin crash and a 21" crash-ride, and both of them kill.

I wonder what my 22" Hollow logo is worth??????????

Me too! I have two 22" just sittin in my closet

Unfortunately most block letter large stamps just aren't thin enough to command top dollar. But this one was, and that was part of the story.

So just how much value your 22's have will depend heavily on their weight.

My two(2) 22"s weigh-in @ 2520g & 2615g

Those weights are the typical for 22's of that era. They may not be thin enough to command as high a value as if they were a few hundred grams thinner, but they certainly should be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 more or less. Maybe MLVBS could help me out here with his opinion. Even so I've heard many 22's in this weight range that sounded spectacular. That to me is much more important than judging by something as arbitrary as gram weight. But on the open market these days, short of actually hearing the cymbal, the vintage of the cymbal and its weight are what seem to be the primary concern as the general buying public is concerned. That's just the way it is and has been for some time now. But that's also why I include a soundfile with all my cymbal ads on eBay. That way what matters most can be used as the criterion for judging the cymbal, and not simply it's weight.