Well, here it is guys. I played this snare and some of the other ludwig snares in Jr High back between the years of 1988-1990. I went and visited my Music Teacher who is still teaching there today, He informed me that all the old Marching Drum equipment I played as a teen was sitting on a top shelf in storage out of the way. I expressed the idea of maybe buying one of the snares........He just handed it to me and said "There you go." I got it for free. It is a 58-59 Ludwig Marching Snare. The butt-plate says WFL, it's the original wrap in the colors of the school I attended. 3 of the lugs had broke inside because Ludwig originaly put shorter screws with these snares so the lugs broke only where the screws ended, so for the time being I fixed the lugs by putting longer screws in them until I can buy some more lugs on ebay. I'm still needing the bottom piece to the throw before I can play it again, but everything else looks great.