The Old Town canoe with serial number 107906 is a 17 foot long, CS (Common Sense or middle) grade, HW (heavy water) model with red Western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, a keel, and a floor rack. It was built between October, 1930 and March, 1931. The original exterior paint color was spruce green. It shipped on April 1st, 1931 to Philadelphia, Penna. 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 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 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.
Thanks Benson, That's it. The story is it was sent back to Old Town in the 70s for repairs. But no written record on my end here. Not sure if the canvas is original until I take things apart.
There are some separate repair records and this information was more commonly noted on the back of the original build record. It appears that the record keeping in the 1970s may have been handled differently since I didn't find any repair information for this canoe in either location. Sorry,
I'm getting ready to paint this canoe and I noticed the build sheet looks like it says spruce green. I was expecting dark green. I've never seen this , is it just a light green color? Anybody know?
My guess is that it was a light blue green. This color was not listed on the known color charts shown at http://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?threads/7345/ so there isn't much more information available. My usual advice is to pick a shade that you (or your customer) likes. Good luck,