I have an old Dynasonic snare I'm trying to date and get a price estimate on. The serial number is 19833 Here's a link to an imgur.

Your snare is from '67 or so, as Dan stated above. But: that is an old list, and some of that data has changed since then. It came to be over 10 years ago in an attempt to organize some known facts, and both Kelly Smith and Rob Cook are to be commended for their efforts - but a lot more has been uncovered since then. For the Dynasonics it's ok, but even there there are problems; there are number ranges like 03xxx/05xxx/07xxx shown - there were never any numbers starting with a zero, and 3xxx is shown as a separate range adding to the confusion. The major problem is that column where 'Holiday' is mixed in with Londoner, Constellation, Headliner, Spotlight, Starlight, Swingtime etc. It is totally misleading.

There is nothing that connects the layout of a drumkit, e.g. Londoner, to a serial number. Download borang 1 azam niaga bank. What had numbers were the individual drum models, i.e. Holiday, Tower, Mercury, Powertone, Dynasonic etc. That comprised any drumkit.

Luxor, Spotlight and Mercury should have their own columns as well, and there should be separate columns for Powertone snares and Powertone drums after the rename from Holiday in 1970. Each of the different model drums were used in various set configurations. For example, a Londoner had a bass, 2 ride toms, and a floor tom. All of those were Holiday drums (until 1970 when the model name was changed to Powertone to match the snares and sound more modern).

Other Holiday drums built on the same day, in the same hour, would have serials in the same sequence, but these may have gone into a Constellation outfit instead. Same type of Holiday drums, different set configuration: the serial numbers having nothing whatsoever to do with set layout. To make matters worse, in that same column there is Holiday mixed with Spotlite, for example. A Holiday was a top of the line model, while a Spotlite was a low-end single-tension student model drum. Spotlight should have it's own column, although the number produced was very small. And, Spotlight was also the name of a layout which used Spotlight drums, confusing matters more. Also, Holiday numbers went into the 50-60-70-thousand+ number range, while the Spotlight numbers didn't make it much over 1000, if at all.

Same with Tower model drums whose production counts were barely 1/10 of the Holidays etc. For those who have an in-depth knowledge of all this, the chart is of some use. But to a beginner, it's very misleading. Rob issued a second edition of the Rogers Book where a lot of information was updated and added.

Not sure if that chart was fixed, though. Again, useful books, but not to be taken as Gospel as far as dating. It is actually better to come here on DFO or over at the Rogers Owners Forum and ask for help on dating a drum. Your snare is from '67 or so, as Dan stated above. But: that is an old list, and some of that data has changed since then. It came to be over 10 years ago in an attempt to organize some known facts, and both Kelly Smith and Rob Cook are to be commended for their efforts - but a lot more has been uncovered since then.

For the Dynasonics it's ok, but even there there are problems; there are number ranges like 03xxx/05xxx/07xxx shown - there were never any numbers starting with a zero, and 3xxx is shown as a separate range adding to the confusion. Click to expand.New here, so please be kind if I break an etiquette rule by mistake. I have recently bought a big R CoB Dynasonic. Still waiting to take possession, very excited! I am interested to know its age, but the list confuses me: My serial number is D114xxx.