Welcome, the Old Town canoe with serial number 72382 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Otca model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, twenty inch ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, a keel, and outside stems. It was built between June and July, 1922. The original exterior paint color was dark red with the names in gold of Ruth on the left bow and Carl on the right stern. It shipped on July 17th, 1922 to Valley Park, Missouri. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image below.
This scan and several hundred thousand others were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others. A description of the project to preserve these records is available at
http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details. I hope that you will join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See
http://www.wcha.org/about-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and
http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to join.
It is possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. Please post some pictures if the names are still showing. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson