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dandy mentioned in this post, dandy drums are australian, made in brisbane, i think became drouyn drums who went on to make shells for was it shleishman? a stradavarious snare sold on australian ebay recently, got a bit of interest, maybe strad drums where australian? hope this is correct.

I don´t think the lugs are Premier - the hoops are not either.

The overall styling is quite alike, but I never saw items like these on any Premier drums.

Regards

Jon

yes the lugs are exact !

from 1939 ..

but

but

these drums in question are from 1960 - Australian made vintage Druoyn (Dandy)

here is the link to a 1939 Premier drum catalogue

http://www.vintprem.moonfruit.com/#/1939/4535723820

Edit:

I do think the lugs are Premier - maybe the hoops are too?

I never saw items like these on any Premier drums, but I have obviously not seen enough.

Regards

Jon

Never too proud to eat my own words, but neither wise enough to shut up in due time.....

Those lugs are Premier 1938-39, there were 2 sizes, snare, toms and floor toms were one size and the bass drum was slightly larger. The t-rods are Olympic

I know I have the catalogs and the drums from this era.......PREMIER

If anybody has any extra large size bass lugs I need 20

any other designation on the Premier snare? might be a De Luxe

I thought the lugs looked familiar, as I formerly owned a 30s Premier Dominion snare drum, lugs looked just alike but they were double lugs. I'll bet Premier made this drum. Also notable is the incredible quality of all the hardware except perhaps the internal muffler (but even then, look at those mufflers on the bass!), the die-cast hoops, the parallel throwoff, This drum exudes quality. It is simply embarrassing that the finest vintage drum geeks across the globe here can't figure it out ;)

well there are 2 scenarios that I can think of how these lugs ended up being used by an Australian drum company. One has to realize that a small company like Dandy really couldn't afford to hav e a mold built by a tool and die company, my opinion. So, the lugs had to come from Premier in one form or another. We now know that the mold survived WWII and Premier used these lugs in their first production immediately after WWII. Once Premier ramped up production, the mold was no longer needed and either could have been sold off or Premier produced a short run for Dandy

Could be, or they're made in England. Where's the evidence they are made in Australia?

Edit: Nevermind.. I just looked at the Dandy drum catalogue from 1960, and it shows all their drums with those lugs. They probably either brought the tooling over from England around WW II or simply had the design purchased from them, or when premier stopped using it, they got it and used it.

Or maybe there's a Premier ownership of the Dandy drum company that they simply started the company up in Australia. Looks to be great quality though and certainly a Premier ancestry.