Hello TC--
Your second family canoe, Old Town 127439, is an 18 foot CS (common sense or middle) grade Guide model canoe that was completed April to July of 1939. It has open spruce gunwales and a keel and was originally painted bright red. It was shipped to The Franklin General Store, Franklin, NJ, on July 14, 1939. There's a notation on the reverse regarding a letter dated August 26, 1939 from the Franklin General Store, complaining about peeled paint, which Old Town would have attended to.
Scans of this record is attached below.
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. Image of 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 athttp://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
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More information on the Old Town Company can be found in Sue Audette's book, "Old Town, Our First Hundred Years", which is available through the WCHA store and most booksellers, eBay, Amazon, and public libraries.
Kathy