zenstat
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He can be seen in photos and heard on recordings playing that cymbal in the modified state as early as the mid 50's, so it seems likely that it was a 40's cymbal. Otherwise, it would have had to develop those initial cracks rather quickly.
The T4 trademark stamp was given years of 1952-1953 by Bill Hartrick. It doesn't fit with it being a 1952-1953 cymbal unless it developed those cracks in just 1 or 2 years to get to mid 50s. Maybe it broke on day 6 of use. I suspect something is out of whack and we need more data on when it was spotted in use with and without the cutouts.
I haven't yet independently checked the factory years of use for Trans Stamps. I'm still working on fixing up all the bogus years for a whole lot of other Avedis Zildjian Trademarks and production method shifts. I hadn't expected that to take this long, but then I hadn't expected so many things to be up to half a decade out.

These things take time.
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