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The Old Town canoe with serial number 6297 is a 16 foot long, AA grade, Charles River model with red Western cedar planking, a keel, mahogany decks, mahogany thwarts, mahogany seats, closed spruce gunwales, spruce rails, and a painter ring. It was built between February and March, 1907. The original exterior paint color was dark green with the name "Naturritch"(?) on the left bow and right stern. It shipped on March 27th, 1907 to Carpentersville, Illinois. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the attached thumbnail image below.
This scan and several hundred thousand more 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/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 also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. I have a very similar canoe as described at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?12320 if you want to see another one. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Nice find,
Benson
This scan and several hundred thousand more 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/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 also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. I have a very similar canoe as described at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?12320 if you want to see another one. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Nice find,
Benson
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