Gretsch Burnt Orange Help

[TTA1326]

Would anybody here mind helping me put fair prices on these drums? I'm not a reseller, never have been. I would like opinions or guidance on what are buy it outright prices on each drum and what are the initial listing prices for each drum if they make it to Ebay. I don't like reserve actions.

My main reason for buying this kit was to get the 16" floor tom, but I was also considering adding the 10" and 12" to my kit. But, once I brought them home I realized the color is just way to different on the mounted toms. My bass 16"x24", snare 8"x14", mounted toms 11"x13" and 12"x14" are as close to the "normal" Burnt Orange shade as possible, but my 16"x18" floor has more red in the color. This 16"x16" floor matches mine perfectly.

I bought them last week and haven't done anything except take all of the rims off for photos and vacuum up a TON of case lining material. This kit was owned by someone that a lot of you most likely know, but I'm not naming him. He's a very well known south east drum seller and Black Beauty knock off builder. This was one of his personal kits and he's trimming them down right now.

So, the drums are from 1980 and they have been cased for almost all of their life. They have been gigged to the max by the owner and a lot of famous folks. All that means that they are not exactly NEW or MINT, but they are nowhere close to PLAYERS quality (I hate those Ebay terms.) Several people have told me that they look new from 10 feet, but I'm very hard on drums.

They are of course "Jasper" shells, there are no extra holes in any of the drums, all of the original hardware is there, the silver sealer is fine, the bearing edges are the original 30°, and the paper tags are intact with serial numbers in the 14x,xxx range. All 3 toms had through the shell mounts that were removed and put onto RIMS mounts using the original hardware. All of the felts, gaskets, backing plates, and original screws are there except for the outside felt for the 13". The RIMS mount cover the original holes for the mounts fine.

The bass is 16"x22" with a tom mount and full length retractable spurs that bolt to the bottom of the tom mount. It's missing the rubber feet for the spurs and the anchor bolt for the front hoop. It has minor surface scratches, some dings here and there, pedal rash on the batter hoop, and one decent size ding where a bass players stand fell into the drum. It's the one that looks like three scratches side by side in the pictures. It has some fading or color issues of some kind right in front of the tom mount and between the lugs on the shell and the hoop. Maybe sun from outside gigs or what?

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The 8"x10" tom has minor surface scratches, some dings, and some snare rash on the back side, but it really doesn't show in the photo to well. I'm guessing that what appears to be super fine cracks in the clear coat that go around the shell are what folks call checking? You can see them, but they only go around the shell on the drums. No actual vertical lines to make it a true checker board pattern. This drum has some around the badge and the center line of the drum in a few places.

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The 10"x12" tom has minor surface scratches, some dings, and a good bit of snare rash on the back side. It has lacquer checking in 2 or 3 of the panels around the drum.

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The 11"x"13 tom has minor surface scratches and some dings. It has lacquer checking in 2 or 3 of the panels around the drum.

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I do have a Gretsch Techware single tom mount stand for the 10" tom and the Gretsch Techware double tom mount for the bass.

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