Boy with Tulip

Boy with Tulip Wendt and Kühn Blossom Kinder (Flower Children) Collection 5" tall WK no. 5248/23 with a Wendt and Kühn Presentation / Gift Box Made in Germany Tulip - a Declaration of Love "Holland is world renowned for their colorful tulips. Ask anyone, anywhere, to name things that are definitely Dutch, and the answer will invariably include not only windmills and wooden shoes, but most definitely tulips. Today almost half of Holland's 44,430 acres of flower bulb farms are dedicated to them! The Promise of Spring The history of tulips is as colorful as the flowers. In the 1600s, tulips were pleasures only the very wealthy could enjoy. Rare and beautiful, they were status symbols of European aristocrats. Then, a buying mania exploded. By 1624, the craze had reached such epic proportions that a single bulb fetched a whopping 4,500 guilders ($2,250 U.S.), plus a horse and carriage! Reaching its heyday in the years 1634 to 1637, the period known as Tulipomania is often compared to the