Old Town Canoe search

[Jeff Eidell]

Just purchased a rough 18' old town canoe. looking for any info

Serial number

74437 18

Thanks in advance!

-Jeff

 

[Greg Nolan]

The Old Town canoe with serial number 74437 is shown as 18 feet long, CS (common sense or standard) grade, H.W. (heavy water) model with western red cedar planking, open spruce gunwales and birch decks, seats, and thwarts, and equipped with a keel. The canoe was built between November 1922 and February 1923. The original exterior paint was dark brown. It was shipped to the department store G. Fox & Co. in Hartford, Connecticut on March 31, 1923. 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.


Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.


Greg

 

[Jeff Eidell]

Thanks Greg!