| "There is no doubt that rat kings exist: sixty or so have been reported in Europe since 1564 and about 40 (most of them found alive) have been authenticated , the latest in 1963. Rat kings have frequently been preserved, painted, and photographed, and in 1774 a 16-rat king was examined by a Leipzig court in connection with a charge that a miller’s apprentice had cheated his master by stealing the king from him and pocketing a tidy sum by exhibiting it." (2) |
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(1) Plastic extrusion mold of a mother black rat feeding her brood, acquired at Schackmans, NYC. The Wunderkammen has been unable, to
date, to acquire a mass produced model of a rat king.
(2) More Cunning than Man: a social history of rats and men; Robert Hendrickson; Dorset Press, New York; pp. 92 - 93.
Steve Lewis, 1997. 
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