The Old Town canoe with serial number 134255 is a 15 foot long, CS (common sense or standard) grade 50 pound model with open spruce gunwales, ash seats, decks and thwarts, and equipped with a keel and floor rack. It was built between December 1941 and January 1921. The original exterior paint color was dark red. It was shipped to Lake Hopatocong, New Jersey on May 1, 1942. A scan of this build record can be found by following the link behind the thumbnail image attached below.
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It is also possible that you could have another number or manufacturer if this description doesn't match your canoe -- as seems likely in this case. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
The other canoes with numbers 1342X5 are 11’, 16’, or 18’ in length. Have you actually measured the length of your canoe? What makes you think it is an Ojibwa model?
A 15’ foot 50 pounder usually has only a center thwart. One with three thwarts (two to replace the seats) would be a special order and that would be reflected on the build record.
Checking the numbers 134XX5 means picking out and reviewing some 100 build records from a list of at least 500, selected from a full list of 1000 -- no small task. I don't have the time to do that right now, and before I were to undertake it, I would like to have a bit more information so as to have some certainty that a given record might match your canoe -- such as the wood used in your decks, seats, rails, whether there is evidence of a rack or other distinguishing features, and certainty from actual measurement of the length of the canoe.
Greg Nolan