old town #138071 and #90518
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Old Town serial number 138071 belonged to an 18-foot CS (common sense or middle) grade OTCA that was built in 1943 and shipped to Cleveland. It had open spruce gunwales and ash decks, seats, and thwarts, plus a keel. Its original color was dark red.
Old Town #90518 was a 16-foot CS grade HW model built in 1926 and shipped to a camp in Pennsylvania. It had open spruce gunwales and birch decks, thwarts, and seats, plus a keel. The original color was blue.
The scans of these records are attached below-- click on them to get a larger image. These scans 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 canoes and plan to use the 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
Old Town #90518 was a 16-foot CS grade HW model built in 1926 and shipped to a camp in Pennsylvania. It had open spruce gunwales and birch decks, thwarts, and seats, plus a keel. The original color was blue.
The scans of these records are attached below-- click on them to get a larger image. These scans 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 canoes and plan to use the 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
