Old town request

The Old Town canoe with serial number 107451 is an 18 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Guide model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, and a keel. It was built between September, 1930 and June, 1931. The original exterior paint color was G. S. (Guide's Special) green. It shipped on June 10th, 1931 to Niles, Michigan. It was damaged in shipment and refused as shown on the back side of the card. A scan showing this build record can be found below.

This scan and several hundred thousand more were created with substantial grants from the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association (WCHA) and others as you probably know well. A description of the project to preserve these records is available at http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/records/ if you want more details. I hope that you will donate, join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See https://www.woodencanoe.org/about to learn more about the WCHA and https://www.woodencanoe.org/shop to donate or renew.

It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.

Benson



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