Welcome and congratulations, the Old Town canoe with serial number 119072 is a 16 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Yankee model with red Western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, oak decks, oak thwarts, oak seats, and a keel. It was built between September, 1936 and February, 1937. The original exterior paint was similar to the one shown at
http://www.wcha.org/catalogs/old-town/designs/design33.gif which was known as the design number 33. It shipped to Lake George, New York on July 23rd, 1937.
The Old Town canoe with serial number 181903 is a 15 foot long Lightweight model with a keel. It was built between November, 1968 and January, 1969. The original exterior paint color was red. It shipped to Sturbridge, Massachusetts on July 2nd, 1969. Scans showing both of these build records can be found below.
These scans and several hundred thousand more 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/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
http://www.wcha.org/about-wcha to learn more about the WCHA and
http://www.wcha.org/store/membership to join.
It is also possible that you could have other numbers or manufacturers if these descriptions don't match the canoes. A classified listing at
http://www.wcha.org/classifieds is usually the fastest way to find good new homes for canoes like this. The outline at
https://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?threads/16513/ explains the process. The information at
https://www.wcha.org/forums/index.php?threads/57/ may be useful if you are not sure how to price them. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
