Serial Number 16 78258
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 78258 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Otca model with red western cedar planking and open spruce gunwales. It was built between April, 1923 and 1924. The original exterior paint color was Yale blue with a half inch gold stripe and turned down ends. This may have looked similar to the one shown at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design27.gif which was known as design number 27. It shipped on March 17th, 1924 to Rochester, New York. 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/ot_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-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html to join.
It is possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description don't match your canoe. Has the original paint design been preserved and can you attach some pictures here? Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
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 will join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/about-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html to join.
It is possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description don't match your canoe. Has the original paint design been preserved and can you attach some pictures here? Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
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