Hi all, I'm new to this website, was doing some research on vintage premier drums and found you.

A friend of mine brings me drums that he finds every now and then (the perfect kind of friend) he found this in a skip.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/87180525@N04/7983048655/in/photostream

It was completely covered with rust but the lugs caught my attention, my first guess was that it was a old ludwig or premier snare... a good bit of work and I uncovered the engraved premier deluxe badge!!

I just wanted to know how common these beautiful snares are now?

Any advice about restoring it further would be great!

i have all the lugs, all tension rods except one, and the strainer is broken and mostly missing.

Sorry for the long post.

Rory.