Congratulations and welcome, the Old Town canoe with serial number 127928 is a 16 foot long, AA (or top) grade, HW (heavy water) model with open mahogany gunwales, mahogany decks, mahogany thwarts, mahogany seats, oval outside finish rails, a keel, a floor rack, and a painter ring in the bow stem. It was built between June and December, 1939. The original exterior paint color was light Yale blue. It shipped on March 1st, 1940 to New York City. The back side of the card shows that it returned on September 17th, 1940 for repairs and was shipped back on November 20th, 1940 to Berryville, Virginia. It may have moved to Reston, Virginia by June of 1981 when there was a previous request for a copy of this build record. Scans showing both sides of this build record can be found by following the links at the attached thumbnail images below.
These scans 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/catalogs/old-town/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-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and
http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to join.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe. Please post some pictures. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
