Dating Zildjian Cymbals: Feb 6, 2010 · Tag your pics and videos with @zildjiancompany and #PlayZildjian and show us how you express yourself with Zildjian

So 60s for yours, but further details don't really matter because both the short and tall version were in factory use until 1976. The unique id at the end is 008 in the case of the A Zildjian stamp shown above, so this is the 8th cymbal from the batch 11236.

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Tag your pics and videos with @zildjiancompany and #PlayZildjian and show us how you express yourself with Zildjian. Zildjian used different fonts in their stamp between production years and by identifying these differences will tell you what era the cymbal was made. The most popular crash cymbals typically range between 16-18”.









) This timeline of the K Zildjian company’s cymbals stamped with “Constantinople” has been put together intuitively.

Senior Member. It was not until many years later that the K Zildjian Cymbal factory updated its cymbal stamps. Laser stamps started on Zildjian Cymbals in 1994. The A stamps use a stylized way of writing Avedis (” ‎‫و‬ه ‫ـض س .



In later stamps the Arabic appears thinner.



Yes, this is like Turkish made K Zildjian cymbals. Post a pic of the Zildjian stamp of the cymbal.

K Zildjian – Constantinople Timeline. The rest of that line contains a batch number and a unique id within the batch.

First Stamp (1929-1939) This is the “first stamp” used for cymbals produced by Avedis Zildjian in the United States, starting in 1929.

That leaves around six decades’ worth of cymbals primarily identifiable by one thing: the stamp. The K version shown above is AJ so that is 2010. Used & Vintage. There are far more distinctions which can be ….

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The old Zildjian cymbal foundry was in Constantinople, dating back to the 17th century.

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Feb 6, 2010 · Tag your pics and videos with @zildjiancompany and #PlayZildjian and show us how you express yourself with Zildjian.

Oftentimes the dates are simply unknown.