I had been on the lookout for a `60s badged 6.5" Sound King snare.
Had a `70s version with the black and silver badge, but really wanted a `60s black and brass badged one, and they don't seem to be nearly as common.
Just bought this because it was what I was looking for, with a twist.
It is a cob 3 line shell, with cob hoops, and `60s badge # 39493. The badge and vent hole are unusually high up on the shell, but I have seen that before.
What is unusual is that it has a Rapid strainer, and not a Zoomatic, or Radio King, or Super Sound King strainer.
The only 3 line shells with Rapid strainers and butts I have seen were the Leedy badged drums.
Probably just a matter of Slingerland assembling a drum with parts that were on hand during a busy period of manufacturing.
Nothing on this drum looks non original or messed with.
One other odd thing is that the knurled tension knob on the strainer is a later `70s version. I am thinking the knob or the whole throwoff was replaced, but that the drum did originally come with a Rapid strainer.
