eric hanson
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Looking for information on 13-14' wood canvas canoe with serial # 132205 13. Also looking to sell it. Eric Hanson
serial # 132205 13
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 132205 is a 13 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, fifty pound model with open spruce gunwales, ash decks, ash thwarts, ash seats, and a keel. It was built between April and June, 1941. The original exterior paint color was dark green. It shipped on June 24th, 1941 to Ashland, New Hampshire.
A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the thumbnail image attached below. 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 will join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/about-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html to join.
There is some good information at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?t=57 about how to value and sell a wooden canoe like this. Please mention the WCHA to the buyer and reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
A scan showing this build record can be found by following the link at the thumbnail image attached below. 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 will join or renew your membership to the WCHA so that services like this can continue. See http://www.wcha.org/about-the-wcha/ to learn more about the WCHA and http://store.wcha.org/WCHA-New-Membership.html to join.
There is some good information at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?t=57 about how to value and sell a wooden canoe like this. Please mention the WCHA to the buyer and reply here if you have any other questions.
Benson
