Very interesting stuff - it makes me wonder just how many kits like this were made? There must have been hundreds of them at one time, where have they all gone? Why is there not more known about Baxter?

With the internet, I would think there would be information floating out there somewhere?

I have two of those Baxter sets. Both with same "avocado strata"-type wrap. Both also same sizes 20", 12", 14" with 14" snare. There is a pic of one of them in some earlier Baxter-thread. I've played them both a lot. With another set almost 50 wedding and birthday gigs, with another countless rehearsals and two records. Thin and light shells, easy to play quiet (wich often is needed at weddings) and easy to carry and still nice warm sound. Although the 6 lug snares are useless, both of them. I only kept them because they have same wrap and they belong to the set. Sometime it would be fun to unite them and play with "vintage" double set. I also have several drum kits more. Ludwig, Premier, Pearl, Beverley, but for some reason I've using those two Baxter sets mostly for last 3-4 years.

Cool set. One can see the Tama foreshadowing in the shot of the bass drum interior. Imagine that with grey trunk paint and you got yourself a Tama Imperial Star shell.

Another note regarding Japanese "stencil brands" is that the abundance of nomenclature was devised mainly as a means for Star and Pearl to get around US (and presumably Canadian) import quotas and price controls (i.e. US trade regulations back then dictated that an item could not sell for less in the US than it did in its country of origin). Thus, re-branding a drum set that sold under the Star or Pearl brand in Japan a "Maxwin" or "Whitehall" they could sell it for less in the US, and get around restrictions on numbers of sets by brand by simply calling it something else.