Serial Number Question

Hi Scott, Your Old Town Canoe with number 15993 is an 18" Guide Special grade, I.F. model ( I was told that I. F. was "Ideal for Fishing"). It has western cedar (red cedar) planking, spruce inwales and rail caps (it is a closed gunwale canoe), ash decks, thwarts and seat frames. It has a keel and was painted N H Green ( I believe that would be New Haven Green). It was built in 1911 (107 years old) and shipped to Maumee, OH.

We worked on a 1910 18' GS IF and there is a photo here: http://smallboat-shop.com/other_work_2.htm

The scan of this record is attached -- click on it to get a larger image. 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/ot_records/ if you want more details. I hope that you and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.

It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Providing photographs would help with identification, as would an accurate measurement of the boat's length.

Dan

Daniel Eaton
smallboat shop
Denmark, Maine
www.smallboat-shop.com

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