You sir, have a VERY rare set of drums! Fiberglass shells were not the norm for stencil brands, and this name is not one we have seen but once or twice, and none with f/g shells that I recall. Those lugs were reserved for Pearls top line drums. Very nice! Just to be clear, rare does not always equate to valuable, and particularly in the stencil badge drum category.

My mind is now melting - a Pearl President fiberglass stencil!!!

Why??? Why stencil out your top of the line model? Anyway- super wonderful find - they are certainly President line Pearl stencils- I can see the dark brown chocolate fiberglass shining through on the pic of the ft. Polish em up with new heads and you've got a real collectible- for a geek like me and us round these parts. That is first President stencil I have ever seen and what a strange name and badge- can I see a pic of the tom mount bracket set-up on the bass drum? Thanks- these will have run from 69-74 roughly

That is the kit I had as a kid.....been looking for one for a long while. If you ever decide to sell, let me know! Great set.

thanks all forgive me being a bit of a newb...lol stencill drums? can someone explain... and the tom mount i have on is a newer one...i fit it without drilling new holes and still have the original. it is a metal tube with an adjustable bracket clamped on to attach the tom... ive only seen it on 68 and earlier pearls...thanks

That is called a rail consolette. As for stencil:Pearl and Star (TAMA) began life building inexpensive drums for US distributors, and they had literally close to 200 "brand names". These were copies of American drums, for the most part Slingerland. This is one of the rare ones that were identical to the mainline kits. I also know that later in the 70s, Pearl stencils were more and more like the mid-line and low-end kits, all the same, just different names.

thanks for the clarification!!! is it possible this is a 69 kit...(being that its fiberglass) and came with 68 hardware? also do you think the olympic hi hat and bass pedal would be the originals to come with this kit?

You see, it is much like anytime a distributor goes to a manufacturer today that offers the same product to many resellers. You go in, look at the menu of accessories, options and badging options, then they build it to your specs. There is much more of this going on in manufacturing today than most people realize with the high-tech and super high speed capabilities of todays modernized plants. This is one of the reasons for inefficient operations losing mfg time to others, whether here or abroad.

Take Slingerland's move from Niles to Arkansas, then to Ridgeland, SC. The plants upgraded and became more and more efficient at building the drums, and they then began to look like every other set of drums on the market, and all the big 3, by this time, got lost in a sea of mediocrity. Efficiency does not always equal more profits, as all too many American companies have and are finding out.

As for the hardware, that likely would have been picked out by the retailer, and the ability of the salesman to up-sell, or the customers' requirements.

Just one word...WOW!!!! a very rare set in 30+ years in dealing in vintage sets i have never seen that kind of badge on a Pearl President set...As for the hi-hat and bass drum pedal "Olympic" these were not made by Pearl they were made by Olympic/Premier[in england]..Olympic was a lower end of drums made by them...But the Olympic h/h and pedal are from the late 60s...The ones that would have come with your set made by pearl would have "Top Hat" or "Top Pro" on the top of the footboards....Mikey

I have the exact same set in brown. My story is that I bought it used in 1979, when I was eleven years old. It was an act of rebellion against my parents. I withdrew all the money from my savings account and carried each piece home from the store without help. This was in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada at Waddington's Music. Now it's in my living room. I don't have the original hi hat stand, bass drum pedal, or cymbal stand that stuck out of the bass drum. But everything else ... I sure recognize those internal drum mufflers!