Nice,not the first time I have heard of this happenstance.

There are some old threads about these shells somewhere on VDF. Run a search and I bet you'll find them. Good luck.

I posted on it too. The big question was why you never see smaller non power toms. I think the lug placement right in the middle of this eagle shows there's just no room for it.

These are ludwigs 75th anniversary shells.

Very neat! Have a friend that has a few of these. Nice finds!

Out of the four shells, this was the only one that had it...

This is probably a cut down power tom done by the factory to use up the shells they had leftover from the 75th anniversary kits. Either that or it was a factory second. Either way, the lugs drilled the way they were most likely happened after the wrap was applied. Ludwig was pretty particular about the placement of the lugs on the eagle shells.

I don't ever recall Ludwig offering the 75th anniversary shells in a concert tom format either. Either way, an interesting discovery to say the least. Cool1