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1941 Leedy Autographs of the Stars

September 8, 2014 Mike Curotto

Here’s a snare drum that I have been looking for since my early days of collecting...thank you Ebay! This one wasn’t cheap but I wanted it so here we are. A little bit of history here in that the date stamp on this drum is 4112 (December 1941)...Pearl Harbor, WWII and The War Powers Act (Dec. 18, 1941) which caused the 10% Law that proved to be a pretty sorrowful era in the history of American made drums. It looks like this snare drum made the cut and was obviously built just before the “10% Law” manufacturing restrictions were enacted.

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In Mike Curotto's Medium Rare Drums, A1MC, Vintage Drums Tags autographs, broadway, leedy, parallel, top hat and cane
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