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    Quote Originally Posted by Riouel View Post
    i think they were made late 70's or early 80's
    What makes you think so? What are the distinguishing marks of this era of New Beats?
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    it in the stamp

    it not only new beat it all zildjian

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    Quote Originally Posted by soren-k View Post
    I just picked up a used pair of New Beats a week ago and would also like to figure out the date of manufacture. Mine look a lot like the ones above, but they don't have any letters or numbers (like "JF 54242 027") under the "Made in USA" part. Does that mean they're from the 80's?

    1950's


    1960's


    Early 1970's


    1970's (without the USA stamp..made in Canada?)


    The Arabic writing that you see on some Zildjian stamps will have three or so dots in the middle of the lower script. It seems that these were dropped from later stamps produced in the 1970's, as you would have on yours. One interesting thing about the metal stamp on your cymbals are that the 'O' at the end of the lettering "Zildjian CO' is in fact a capital 'O' and not a small 'o' with an underline. So it would definitely not make it a 1970's stamp. However, as someone has stated, the black letters which have been stencilled onto the cymbals would then date them from at least the 1980's or so....still, I'm no real expert on it, Riouel most certainly is. I've got a few old Zildjian promo posters in my collection, one example is of the drummer Omar Hakim around the time he was doing recordings and tours with Sting and Madonna in the 1980's, and the pics of your cymbals look remarkably similar to what he was pictured with at that time.
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