serial # help 44120 17

Sharrod

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#s are located in the front and back on a piece of wood that runs perpendicular to the ribs. 44120 17

Any info would be great.

Thanks in advance
 
The Old Town canoe with serial number 44120 is an 17 foot long, CS (common sense or middle) grade, Otca model with red western cedar planking, open spruce gunwales, birch decks, birch thwarts, birch seats, and a keel. It was built between July, 1916 and January, 1917. The original exterior paint color was orange. It shipped on January 31st, 1917 to Toledo, Ohio. 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 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/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 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.

Benson
 

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Thanks so much for your help. Description matches perfectly other than the ext color, which is now green. I got it out of a barn in Lima in Northwest Ohio.
 

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