Good drums. I believe Beverly and Premier were separately owned, but their drums were made in the same factory by the same workers. From what I understand, the shell construction is the same. If the price is right, I'd snap them up.

Hi STEDI! Bought one myself recently on ebay for £77. Just about to start cleaning it up.The one in your pic looks in good condition,mine is a bit of a mess. Prob need to replace rims and not sure what to do with shells yet.Theyve got pink splodges all over them which seem to have come up through the shell and through the wrap..damp maybe!

Nice kit! It's fitted with the same tom mounts as vintage premier/olympics of the time - late 60's to early 70's at a guess. Many people replace this hardware for the more recognizable oval mount - the mainstay of Premier kits throughout the 70's and 80's. However, it's detrimental to the value to do this! If you were after the original tom mounts, I'd imagine a search for vintage premier and vintage olympic tom mount would help. As you can see from holes in the mount plates, they are quite small in diameter.

Those are hard enough to come by in original condition. I would leave them be and search for the correct parts and play the devil out of them. That wrap is actually a "ginger aled" silver sparkle. The tom mounts should be available from someone, however finding the missing tom in a matching fade may be a little more time consuming, depending where you live. But if you do acquire them, leave them as original as possible, it's the way of the ninja drum collector and restorer/preservationist. Are you a master or a grasshopper?

thanks for the great info guys,...

Unfortunately yesterday the kit disappeared from the site (similar to CL in the US)

It's no longer available I'm afraid. Asking price was around 150 Euro.

I would most defenitelly kept in it's original configuration.

Those vintage English drums pop up now and then here in Belgium-Holland.

Only Premier-kits seem to go higher in price as they are best known I guess.

For the moment, I keep all options open, just looking for a nice project worth while restoring. Here's another one I just spotted,... cool wrap !

You've got the pink splodges too? Thought me dad has just got a bit of paint on them. Interesting. Does this just happen with the gold sparkle wrap then?

Do you know what brand those are? They seem to have calf heads-----I would assume very old(50's) or of unusual sizes. I have never seen that wrap on any drums before and I am pretty familiar with European drum wraps.

Splotches are usually a result of a reaction between solvents in the glue and components in the wrap. If there are two Gold Sparkle wraps with the same problem----that would likely be it. There were pretty primitive contact cements in the days in which these drums were made. Now, the water soluble c.c's are supposed to have solved this potential problem.

Also, by the time Beverley had changed badges from the gold one around the vent to the big blue b around the vent , they were using a lot of those thin acetate wraps that Premier gravitated to . Perhaps unbeknownst to them the glues had an unusual reaction to acetate(if those wraps are acetate).