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Rooster circa 1895 |
| Recently a rare Dentzel rooster sold for over one hundred thousand dollars at a New York auction. If Gustav, William I or Edward could have predicted this they would have put a stash of roosters, rabbits, cats and lions in a deep underground time vault not to be opened until the year 2000 by their great-great-grandchildren. This would have put each one of the new little Dentzels through business college so that they could figure out a way to make more money with carousels rather than get so engrossed in the art and enjoyment side of it as their parents seem to have done. Several years ago notes were found slipped in-between the matte boards of an old portrait of Gustav Dentzel showing off his left ear. These notes referred to a large amount of damage sustained by none other than a group of roosters, rabbits, cats and lions put together in a boxcar sized crate planned to go five hundred feet below the Dentzel workshops in Germantown. The damage was not from moisture as one would have suspected being so close to the ocean, but rather from one heck of a pillow fight. Gustav unwittingly used the family's pillow collection to pad the animals and had no idea that animals of this stature and upbringing would stoop to such a lowly thing as a damaging pillow fight. The plan was scrapped and all of the animals repaired and put on separate carousels being shipped to different parts of the continent. Too bad for the great-great Dentzel grandchildren. |
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