Serial #14485 16 with 28" decks
- Thread starter Rdrcoon
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The Old Town canoe with serial number 14485 is a 16 foot long, AA (or top) grade, Charles River model with red western cedar planking, closed spruce gunwales, mahogany decks, mahogany thwarts, mahogany seats, spruce finish rails, a keel, and a floor rack. It was built between June, 1910 and June, 1911. The original exterior paint color was dark red. It was shipped on June 19th, 1912 to Laporte, Sullivan, Pennsylvania. A scan of 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.
It is likely that you could have another number or manufacturer since this description doesn't match your canoe (or it has had extensive modifications). The Carleton with this serial number is a 16 foot long double ended boat that shipped in 1920. The Kennebec with this serial number is a 16 foot long Kennebec model type A that shipped in 1921. More pictures of the canoe and the serial numbers might help identify it since it doesn't look like any of these. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Congratulations on your purchase,
Benson
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.
It is likely that you could have another number or manufacturer since this description doesn't match your canoe (or it has had extensive modifications). The Carleton with this serial number is a 16 foot long double ended boat that shipped in 1920. The Kennebec with this serial number is a 16 foot long Kennebec model type A that shipped in 1921. More pictures of the canoe and the serial numbers might help identify it since it doesn't look like any of these. Feel free to reply here if you have any other questions. Congratulations on your purchase,
Benson
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It doesn't look much like the double ended boat shown at http://forums.wcha.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22820&d=1346033681 so I don't believe that it is the Carleton. These were listed as being 38 inches wide in the 1920 Carleton catalog so that doesn't match either. Some more pictures, especially of the numbers from the other end of your canoe could help. The information at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?791 may also be useful. Thanks,
Benson
Benson
