The Old Town canoe with serial number 75976 is shown as 17 feet long, AA(top) grade, an Otca model with open mahogany gunwales, Mahogany seats, thwarts, 20” mahogany decks, and fitted with half ribs, and outside stem, and a keel. The canoe was built in 1923. The original exterior paint color was Bril. (brilliant?) Green. It was shipped on March 31, 1923 to Olyphant, Pennsylvania.
A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind 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 canoe.
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Greg