Looking for info on a Old Town Canoe

jlarrabee

Curious about Wooden Canoes
I found a 16' Old Town For Sale, and was looking for info on it to determine the age of it. It does seem old because of the "Over the Top Gunwales" The serial number is 12470. Could someone help me with this?
 
The Old Town canoe with serial number 12470 is a 16 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, HW (heavy water) model with red Western cedar planking, closed spruce gunwales, spruce decks, spruce thwarts, spruce seats, spruce finish (outside) rails, and a keel. It was built between November, 1909 and January, 1910. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on February 10th, 1910 to Philadelphia, Penna. A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image below.

This scan and several hundred thousand more 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 canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Good luck,

Benson
 

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