Old Town serial number 164128 belonged to a 15-foot long CS (or common sense) grade 50-pounder model that was built in 1955 and shipped to Flint, Michigan, in 1956. It was a wood-and-canvas canoe, no fiberglass. It had a keel and the original color was dark green.
If you're interested in removing the fiberglass and restoring the canoe, check some of the other topics on this forum. There are lots of people here who can help you, and you might also want to look at the books for sale through the WCHA.
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.
Norm
