old canoe with serial # 156999 stamped on each end .

hiddencars

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Found this old canoe at a neighbores estate sale and was wondering if someone can help identify what it is, Thanks..
 
The canoe was likely built by the Old Town Canoe Company. Old Town serial number 156999 belonged to a 16-foot CS (or common sense) grade HW model with low ends that was built in 1952 and shipped to Tupper Lake, N.Y. It had open spruce gunwales, a keel, and was originally painted an aluminum color.

The scan of this record is attached below--click on it to get a larger image. 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 and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.

If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.

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.

Norm
 

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