Today I found a couple of cool dynamic ball-headed high Z mics at a thrift shop for $4.99 USD each. One's a Shure PE 585 Unisphere A, but the other I can't figure out. It's got similar styling, with a shorter body and a smooth chrome (not brushed stainless) finish. There's no printing on the band around the equator, or none left now, and the printing that is left on the ring below the ball makes no sense to me. It looks sort of like
The colon there is probably not a colon (the spacing seems wrong) but the remnants of a letter or number, like the rightmost part of a Z or something (?). The apostrophe does look like an apostrophe to me, but it too may be part of a missing letter, like the upper right corner of a Z. (Even the E could be a Z with a european style crossbar in the middle. I'm seeing Z's everywhere.)
Does anyone recognize this mic or see how to make any sense of the writing?
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B : LADE '66
The colon there is probably not a colon (the spacing seems wrong) but the remnants of a letter or number, like the rightmost part of a Z or something (?). The apostrophe does look like an apostrophe to me, but it too may be part of a missing letter, like the upper right corner of a Z. (Even the E could be a Z with a european style crossbar in the middle. I'm seeing Z's everywhere.)
Does anyone recognize this mic or see how to make any sense of the writing?
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