This arrived yesterday. It was a real head scratcher on EBay. Through more pics from the seller I finally figured it out. He had it listed as the more rare Camco Tuxedo Orchestra Model. Which means instead of an Economy strainer and butt it has an Aristocrat strainer and regular butt plate as well as a tone-control.
Through the pics I determined it was not an Orchestra Model as it was lacking a tone-control. I also believe this one to be a mistake. It is drilled for an Aristocrat strainer but instead of a standard butt plate it has an Economy butt. So it gives the ability to adjust wire tension from either side, sort of like a Gretsch micro-sensitive.
I have only seen one other set up like this. It was owned by DFO member jolo and ironically it was also red sparkle.
The last mystery was the strainer. The seller bought the drum and it came with the strainer disassembled . He could never figure it out. Well the guts were for an Aristocrat strainer with vertical hole spacing the same as what the drum is drilled for. But the casing is an early Tuxedo strainer with horizontal hole spacing. Although they are not designed to work together I managed to make it work.
It ended up being one of the best sounding snares I own.
