Old Town 152875 13

Cinny

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I have an Old Town canoe that my grandfather bought second hand and I don't know anything else about it. When was it made? Where was it shipped? What was the original color? I'd love to know any information you have about it. Thanks so much!
 
Cinny,

Old Town #152875 was a 13-foot CS (or common sense) 50-pound model built with Maine cedar and open spruce gunwales in 1949 and shipped in 1950 to Newtown Square, Penn. It had a keel and was originally painted with a dark green enamel.

The scan of this record is attached below-- 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.

If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.

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.

Norm
 

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Wow! Thanks so much for all the information... and so quickly! This is very exciting to know.

My best,
Cinny
 
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