The Old Town canoe with serial number 109852 is a 25 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, war canoe model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, thirty inch birch decks, birch thwarts, birch seats, a keel, outside stems, and a floor rack. It was built between May and July, 1931. The original exterior paint color was bright red. It shipped on June 28th, 1931 to Salem, New York. A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the attached thumbnail image 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 contribute, join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See
http://www.wcha.org/about-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and
http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to renew.
It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match the canoe, although that seems unlikely in this case. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Thanks,
Benson
