Shell Lake US Forest Service

Dave Osborn

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Shell Lake made canoes for the US Forest Service. The have a USFS stamp on them.
With records now available is possible to determine how many and what years they were sold ?
 
The short summary is maybe. Only the canoe pages in one out of three volumes have been photographed. This is a total of 28 pages ranging from 1940 to about 1954. I just glanced through them quickly and didn't see any customer names that looked like the U. S. Forest Service or USFS. These canoes might have been sold through dealers which would make them harder to track. Do you have any example serial numbers available? Let me know if you would like a copy of this information to search yourself or anything else. Thanks,

Benson
 
I don't remember the "stamp", it's been a while, but, is it "stamped" or "burned " in, ie; did Thompson put it there or did the FS put it there?
If the FS, they may not show up in the records.

Dan
 
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