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vintagemore -- It looks like a five-piece kit. I think that's a matching snare drum behind the hats.

skydog & caddywump -- Thanks for the Musser info. That's an awesome I.D.!!!

fishwaltz -- I'm going to try to buy the vibes and the kit. I'll see how they're priced. I hope that snare is a single-ply Radio King. But whatever it is, I'm interested. The odds are that someone else will get there before me, but I'll take my shot and post the results.

If I do end up with the kit, I'll keep it together whatever I do with it.

That's great! Whenever I see things like that, I imagine an archeologist opening up a mummy's tomb and seeing that treasure again for the first time in thousands of years -lying there just like it was when it was first put there.

I hope you get it, enjoy it and keep it all together for the next archeologist to dig up some day. :Santa:

The open-ended frame is the same one as on the Hampton version of the Century vibes, but the pedal bracket and gold bars are typical of the regular Century model, too. Did they ever make the Lionel Hampton model with a black frame?

...and just sort of wondering out loud: What makes the Hampton model worth an extra grand? Other than the natural wood finish, open-ended frame, and Lionel Hampton's name on the front rail, is it any different than the standard Century vibes?