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62533
Dave,
Old Town serial number 62533 belonged to a 17-foot CS (common sense) grade HW model canoe built in 1920 and shipped in 1921 to Wilkes-Barre, Penn. It had spruce gunwales and apparently birch decks, thwarts and seats, but I may be reading it wrong. It had sponsons and was painted dark green. Note there's another notation after the color that may indicate a pattern.
The scan of this record is attached below-- click on it to get a larger image. 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 and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.
If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.
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.
Dave,
Old Town serial number 62533 belonged to a 17-foot CS (common sense) grade HW model canoe built in 1920 and shipped in 1921 to Wilkes-Barre, Penn. It had spruce gunwales and apparently birch decks, thwarts and seats, but I may be reading it wrong. It had sponsons and was painted dark green. Note there's another notation after the color that may indicate a pattern.
The scan of this record is attached below-- click on it to get a larger image. 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 and anyone else reading this will join or renew membership in the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://www.wcha.org/join.php to renew.
If you are selling your canoe and plan to use this build record information as part of an ad, please consider giving the WCHA credit for this information on eBay or craigslist or wherever your canoe is listed.
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.
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Kathryn Klos
squirrel whisperer
Yes, thanks Norm-- my computer was misbehaving and not letting me get into the file for that serial number when I saw the post earlier today. Tomorrow I am upgrading to Windows 7, because I believe this is a Vista problem... and one I'm long overdue to fix!
Gunwales are closed whenever it doesn't say "open" on these old records... sometimes that helps establish whether it's the right record because open gunwales are obvious, even to folks who aren't as familiar with canoe terminology. (Dave would know the difference though!) I also read it as "birch" decks/thwarts/seat frames. And it says "packed" after the color, which I've assumed means it was packed for shipment. Guess I don't know for sure-- could be the name of the fellow who painted it-- but I think "Dechaine" may be the name of the guy, because the handwriting seems the same as on the "sponsons" line.
Kathy
Gunwales are closed whenever it doesn't say "open" on these old records... sometimes that helps establish whether it's the right record because open gunwales are obvious, even to folks who aren't as familiar with canoe terminology. (Dave would know the difference though!) I also read it as "birch" decks/thwarts/seat frames. And it says "packed" after the color, which I've assumed means it was packed for shipment. Guess I don't know for sure-- could be the name of the fellow who painted it-- but I think "Dechaine" may be the name of the guy, because the handwriting seems the same as on the "sponsons" line.
Kathy
