#7124-TRANSITIONAL MILITARY SNARE DRUM: Very hard to find example of the snare drum as carried by Military and Para-Military marching bands. It has a brass barrel body with wooden frames at top and bottom with drumskins of white calfskin. The wooden frames are painted in the traditional triangle pattern in the Landesfarbe(State colors) in this case being green & white for Saxony. The drum has all eight of its spanner bolts as well as a turnkey & hook holding the snare wires below the bottom head. It has an upper plate with two holes for the hanger and two bolts for the lower leg wire that is missing. Drums decorated in this way were introduced for the Reichsheer in 1930 and worn into the early days of the Wehrmacht not to mention their use by SA and other uniformed organizations. The drum is unmarked and it is not an older (Imperial) over painted model. The drum shows many small chips and areas of peeled paint from age as well as paint loss to the edges from drumstick wear. The top skin also has a 6” split from age. Shows use and overall age, Condition III+ $375.00