> I've seen a handful of smokey sparkling pearl drums...they were all from around 58/59 and they all looked like this set.
The operative word in your statement is 'handful.' Which is the point I was trying to make. Seems like, in those couple of years 58 to 59 only a very small number of these kits were even produced. I've been playing for 53 years, I've only seen a few in all that time. The one I had that Mike now owns, Marks new/old kit and a Slingerland one. No others I can recall though. Can't be too many of those buggers still in one piece put there. They are extremely hard to come by.
John
