Here's another one for the records Oddball :)

I finally managed to find the missing items to complete my Teardrop Tiger kit, plus another bass drum, which is a bonus: now I can start building the German equivalent of Keith Moon's set :) There's no stamp inside the BD and TT I can see, but there is a faint one in the FT: 409... All the little details tell me this is a matched set, though I can't confirm that at the moment.

There's quite a few issues with this one, but I think I can make it sing again - eventually... The TT and FT are slightly out-of-round in the middle of the shell and they're both missing a hoop, someone has fitted metal reinforcing plates on the spur and cymbal mounts - both inside as well as outside the BD - so there are extra holes, a BD spur is missing and the other one is missing its ring (the one that goes above the rubber tip), a BD hoop and its T-rods are also gone, no badge on the BD... and a couple of other things I'm forgetting right now. The whole kit is dirty as hell (the BD especially) and feels oily to the touch, as if it's been sitting in a garage for 50 years. There's also some kind of sticky residue behind the lugs and under the hoops, right where the skins touch the bearing edge - no clue what that is... Oh, someone's spilled something on the TT and FT and there's some kind of mark left on the wrap at places, kinda like a burn mark that has healed - not readily visible, but it's there.

This one will keep me busy for a while...

Alex