They look like Roxy drums made in germany in the 50's-60's..

I know that the lugs look like Sonor but i dont recall Sonor every doing a silver paint inside the shells...A better close-up of the T-rod would tell me if iam right or wrong..

If the T-rod is rounded around the top its Roxy,if the T-rods and flat and rounded on top Sonor.

Also the T-rods if Sonor are 1/4 20 thread--Roxy rods are 4.5 metric thread.....Mikey

I just checked the last photo and made it bigger the T-rods are Roxy not Sonor..

Those are TRIXON bongos.

Circa 1956...right?

The T-Rods are totally flat on top, and after comparing them, the lugs are not exactly like Sonor's, they aren't as long and have a slightly different pattern on the sides. They just look similar from a distance.

I took the heads off, and the 10" drum has a masonite reinforcing ring which forms half the bearing edge. The smaller drum has a plastic ring around the top which forms the entire bearing edge. Strange. It has a chip out of it, which I'm going to fix with some epoxy.

The other strange part of this drum is the rims, which look very nice, and are not a shape that I've ever seen before. They're triple flanged but the top flange folds all the way over, and the juts for the holes are almost triangular.

These are Trixon from about 1960. The plastic connector, became the standard union for the 5 concert toms in a Speedfire set, afterwhich they showed upon Bongos and Timbales too.

Bucky and Calfskin are fully right --- that's Trixon.

Masonite bongos shells were not as rarebirds in Europe 50 - 80's.

Also Tacton sometimes have used these Trixon lugs during 1961-1966 from Rimmel foundry workshop --- he used them by the same way as a Trixon throwoff system on Tacton snares of the same era.

George.

These, by the way, were called Timbales by Trixon-------alto and tenor. They also had a 3 piece set, which included a 6 1/4" soprano. When paired as the 8" and the 6 1/4" , they were called Bongos, with overdrawn hoops or Timbales , if the hoops were high.

The composite shells were used for these and sometimes for the concert toms ,of the Speedfire kits. Curiously, the same size shells , showed up as double headed toms, with 2 mufflers but made of European Beech instead.