Welcome to the WCHA forum and congratulations on your purchase. The Old Town with serial number 125762 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, double end boat model with open spruce gunwales, ash decks, spruce seats, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between November, 1938 and April, 1939. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It was shipped on July 16th, 1939 to Ashland, New Hampshire.
A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at 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 also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your boat. The 1939 catalog page for this boat lists the extreme width as 42 inches as shown below so it hasn't spread too much. More information like this is available from
http://store.wcha.org/The-Complete-Old-Town-Canoe-Company-Catalog-Collection-CD-ROM.html in the Old Town Canoe Company Catalog Collection. You will probably find the white search box in the upper right corner of this screen most helpful when you are looking for information in this forum. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Good luck with the restoration,
Benson