The Old Town canoe with serial number 93820 is a 17 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, HW (Heavy Water) model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, a keel, and a floor rack. It was built between February, and June 1927. The original exterior paint color was dark red. It was shipped on June 23rd, 1927 to Northville, New York. The back side of this card indicates that it may have moved to the Washington, D. C. area by August 24th, 1973 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/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 don't match the canoe. The messages at
http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?57 have some good information about how to value and sell a canoe like this as Paul mentioned. The classifieds at
http://classifieds.wcha.org/ are another good way to find a similar one for a price comparison. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson