Welcome and congratulations, the Old Town canoe with serial number 123659 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, HW (heavy water) model with open spruce gunwales, a keel, and outside stems. It was built between November, 1937 and May, 1938. The original exterior paint color was dark green It shipped on June 20th, 1939 to Ashland, New Hampshire.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 31133 is a 17 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, Otca model with red Western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, half ribs, a keel, outside stems, and twenty inch decks. It was built between February and April, 1914. The original exterior paint color was maroon. It shipped on April 22nd, 1914 to Dayton, Ohio.
Scans of these build records can be found below. These scans and several hundred thousand others were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. 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 donate, join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See
https://www.woodencanoe.org/about to learn more about the WCHA and
https://www.woodencanoe.org/shop to donate or join.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if these descriptions don't match the canoes. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
