The Old Town canoe with serial number 4733 is shown as 17 feet long, CS (common sense or standard) grade, Charles River model with spruce gunwales and maple decks, seats, and thwarts. The canoe was built in 1906-07. The original exterior paint color was N.H. green. It was shipped to Newark, New Jersey on April 13, 1907. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below.
This scan 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 possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe.
You indicate that the serial number of your canoe is 16 4733, although the 16 does not show in your photo of the number. Is the “16” actually stamped into the canoe? Did you measure the length of the canoe? Are you sure of the age of the canoe? An Old Town canoe built in the 1930s would have a much higher serial number, somewhere closer to 100,000.
It seems likely that your canoe is not an Old Town. Others will probably have some thoughts on the builder of your canoe, which should be quite a nice boat if properly restored. Providing actual dimensions (length, beam, depth) can help.
Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Greg
