People shouldn't have laughed at Dave Pahl's idea to open a hammer museum.

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Could it be the world's only hammer collection?

He now has more than 1200 hammers – snowknockers, broom makers, coopers, saddlers and springloaders.

Fancy hammers, fencing hammers – four rooms of hammers display Dave's driven determination.

He even has a Roman hammer from around 300 AD, one from early settlers, and hundreds of unheralded, unusual and unidentified historical hammers.

Information

The Hammer Museum, 108 Main Street, Box 702, Haines, Alaska 99827, Tel. 907-766-2374