Thanks, calfskin, for your explanations.I took the chance to compare the lugs of this bass drum directly with ones from the DrumMate (now in the hands of member ChristianB) I owned.Result: there are really only very, very small differences in the shape of the lugs, to be noticed only if laying directly one to one beside each other. So I'd say: there is no difference between them (the overall sizes are equal).But, if I'm right, Star produced their DrumMate line starting around 1965, not earlier.RalfNB: calfskin: if you prefer to say: this is a Deri bass drum, that's fine with me as well !
There is no evidence of a preexisting badge , anywhere, Ralf? ----might have been sold to a music shop ,as an in house brand. It seems , that often they would be brand designated by stamps on the heads.
This seems to be a unique situation, in Germany. In the U.S.as an example, those types of drums were pumped out of Japan by the millions, badged with any name you wanted. For a long time, due to a still postwar depressed economy,German music companies and shops , probably found it as economical or moreso , to buy locally made unbadged drums. If the purchase was big enough, it would make sense to get badges made; Luxor,Voss, Lindberg,Roxy all were badged as such , even though the drums were identical but then I have seen lots of unbadged drums with foil or paper ........ Musikhaus stickers----again of known German brands and then again ,unbadged with the name printed on the heads.
I've only ever seen drums that one would think of as Rimmel, with these lugs. It seems that Deri continued until the end with the traditional teardrop type, although towards the end , they may have experimented with plastic lugs( as both Sonor and Tromsa did).
