Dover, Ohio: Warther Carvings Museum and Button Collection
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- Address:
- 331 Karl Ave., Dover, OH
- Directions:
- I-77 exit 83. Hwy 800 east only 1/4 mile, on right-hand side.
- Hours:
- Daily 9 am - 5 pm. (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 330-343-7513
- RA Rates:
- Major Fun
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Ernest Warther's impossibly perfect locomotive carvings make up the bulk of this well-mounted museum. Also here is his wife's collection of over 70,000 buttons.
Roadsideamerica.com Report...Loopy Lincoln Landmark: Lincoln Funeral Train tributes are everywhere -- this one is hand-carved and especially nice.
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Extraordinary collection -- of both hand carved trains and buttons.
[Jennifer Kefer, 11/27/2020]
Mrs. Warther's buttons are equally impressive.
[Elizabethanne Fuller Murray, 01/11/2012]World master carver Ernest Warthers' carvings of trains. What he did with ivory and wood is remarkable . Family run the displays and talk about his life. There is still a knife factory that he started and there are also tours of this. His wife collected buttons and these are displayed in Mrs. Carver's Button House. All children are given hand carved pliers.
[wanetta Lynn smith, 08/10/2001]Page of 2 [Next 2 items]
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