After starting this thread about 10 months ago, I have (again) acquired a Rogers set in strata finish. Some of you may have seen it on Reverb over the weekend. I was able to get a good price on it through the offer system. Some might have called it a low ball offer considering how soon I submitted it after the set appeared, but it worked for them and for me. I'll follow up when I expect to have it first-hand in April. It's one of the earlier strata patterns as best I can determine. The set dates pretty much to late 1967 (speckled paint -88xxx or so), and was said to have been ordered by the original owner (that's according to information from a prior drum seller who had it a year ago). I have a nice 7-line Dynasonic and an equally nice COB PowerTone that could match up to it date-wise. Looking forward to seeing it and working through the details of getting it back into the best condition I can. It's a typical "Buddy Rich Headliner" from that era with a 20, 12, 16 configuration. These and the other outfits don't show up very often in strata finish for some reason. I keep wondering where all the strata from '67-68 has disappeared to.

My hunch is that people who wanted drums with that type of wrap really wanted to emulate Ringo so much that they just bought Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl drums. There are relatively plenty of Black Diamond Pearl Rogers drum sets from that period. My hunch also tells me that Black Strata wrapped Rogers drum sets from that same era were not plentiful to begin with. Conversely, there were plenty of red sparkle Rogers Dave Clark wannabe five piece drum sets.