[COLOR="DarkRed"]Kind of. Bought this on eFlay for $90 shipped. It's an old Stambul 65.
Stambuls were Paiste top-line cymbals up until around '67. Before '65 they ~ like all other Paistes until then (Ludwig Standards, and Stanoples)~ were NS 12 alloy...nickelbronze sometimes called nickelsilver.
Not the best of alloys, but apparently readily available as blanks.... and Paiste built their company on that alloy.
'65 was the first introduction of a new alloy to their fabrication process.
They changed their Stambuls from NS12 to B8.
I believe this is a very early example of a high-end B8...sort of the predecessor to the 2002 line.
They only made these for 3 years, if memory serves. '65-'67. After that, Stambuls were no more, as they changed the names of their lines and began expanding them.
It's a very nice cymbal...imagine 602 hammering on a B8 alloy, and you have got a good idea. It may not have been a big seller, but (from a cymbal-ic evolutionary standpoint Coffee Break2) it was an important sort of "prototype" line to what they would do later with B8 alloy.
It's medium-thin, with a shallower bell than the NS12 Stambuls which preceded it. Quite nice.[/COLOR]
