I had a vintage jazz kit from Premier's late 60s period.
It was an unusual configuration, with a 14"x8" tom, a 20"x14 bass drum and a 16"1/4x18" floor tom (in pre-international which was annoying because I had to special order the head).
They were fine but I couldn't manage to get the toms tuned as I wanted, especially the floor tom.
It looked beautiful though, in its vintage white marine pearl finish. Especially I loved the lugs Art-deco design, very classy:
I had with it an royal ace snare, that I never managed to make it sound as I like neither. I bought some very expensive "double 10" snares for it but even then the snare didn't respond as I wanted, the strainer had some trouble (I guess the previous owner didn't take enough care of it).
Otherwise, the building quality was exceptional: check out this cast hoops! 50 years later, the chrome is still in pristine condition...
And the shell construction was very good: only 3 thin plies of birch (0.5mm overall), plus a thick reinforcing ring in beech.
Look at here the interior of the snare (with a parallel throw-off), its really quality made instruments.
It was supposed to be good but I'm not a fan of birch. As I couldn't get the best out of it I sold it.
I also had a piccolo snare 14"x4" in brass, but I ended up by hating its sound, it was way too high-piched and powerful to my ears. The strainer on this snare was engineered with genius: it was very simple to remove the snare when you had to (for example to tune the snare head); I wish I had this system on all my snares today.
Premier still make very good and beautiful drums and under-rated. Their new cymbal stands are gorgeous: you can switch btw. flush-base or traditional, which is also a very nice design.