Zildjian trans stamp III - 15" with CRASH ink

[Tama CW]

Thought this was interesting. Don't recall running into one this early before. The inked lettering seems to curve upwards.

This is on a 15" that shows heavy use as either part of a hi hat or orchestral pair. It surely didn't live most of its life as a "crash."

Too bad it has several bell hole cracks and some edge dings - weighs about 800 gm. Current seller asking price is around $200 shipped. Well, that's not gonna happen.

 

[cymbal.wiki]

Thank you. Your image prompted me to finally get writing on the 1950s CRASH ink examples I have on a new wiki page. One of many pages to come as I have rather a lot of research material to report on. I've only started on all the ink details I've got.

A Zildjian 1950s Crash ink - Cymbal

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If you have a link to the original location where this was for sale, I might be able to grab the rest of the details and more images for the wiki and my database. You can PM me if you don't want to make the link public for any reason.

 

[Tama CW]

Here's the Reverb link where it first showed up this past week. It will be up for a while at current asking price.......

https://reverb.com/item/38420341-zildjian-15-crash-avedis-a-trans-stamp-iii-1950-1952-800g-1950-1952

Instead of my HEAVY DANCE......would have preferred a CRASH DANCE. Not that "heavy" at 1603 gm.