The Old Town canoe with serial number 101122 is a 25 foot long CS (common sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, thirty inch decks, maple thwarts, maple seats, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between March and May, 1929. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on May 28th, 1929 to Seattle, Washington.
The record for the canoe with number 102089 shows an 18 foot long canoe. My guess is that you may really have the one with number 102086. This is a 25 foot long CS (common sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between June and August, 1929. The original exterior paint color was red enamel. It shipped on August 10th, 1929 to Bridgewater, New Hampshire.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 104475 is a 25 foot long CS (common sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, thirty inch decks, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between January and April, 1930. The original exterior paint color was orange. It shipped on May 2nd, 1930 to Seattle, Washington.
The record for the canoe with number 105739 shows an 16 foot long canoe. None of the other likely ones matched either. The information at
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?791 may help and please post some pictures of the numbers from each end. It could also be helpful if you can identify which digit is the least clear.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 139512 is a 25 foot long CS (common sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, thirty inch ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between March and June, 1944. The original exterior paint color was white. It shipped on June 28th, 1944 to Deer Harbor, Washington.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 139575 is a 25 foot long CS (common sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between March and June, 1944. The original exterior paint color was light Yale blue. It shipped on June 28th, 1944 to Deer Harbor, Washington.
Scans of these build records 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/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 these descriptions don't match your canoes. Better late than never? Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
