I'm a newbie and much to my chagrin, I have wasted no time in making my first faux pas, having inadvertently posted the following in the gallery. Thanks for the correction, apologies for the mistake.

I bought a new 14x6.5" Ludwig Black Beauty with a P-85 Super-sensitive strainer in 1976. I remember paying a bargain price of about $350 and being told it was a "Bicentennial re-issue Black Beauty." I didn't buy it to collect, as a vintage drum, although it has become vintage. It was and still is my "Daily Driver" and continues to be the standard by which, I measure other snare drums.

I read on the Black Beauty site that BBs were reintroduced in 1977, which causes me to wonder if my "76" is more rare than I had previously thought. Is anyone familiar with that period of time and the relationship to the Bicentennial BB?