I have a weird problem I don't understand: I have a command to import data.

I have a weird problem I don't understand: I have a command to import data. The relevant section looks like this
 

Gallery::truncate();

DB::table('galleries_old')->get()->each(function ($gallery) {

            $new_gal = Gallery::create([

                'name'        => $gallery->name,

                'date'        => $gallery->date,

                'description' => $gallery->description,

            ]);



        });

 
 at the end of the command I output `$this->info(Gallery::count());` and it shows `26` which is the same number of rows as in the old table. Next I open tinker do the same and it shows: `0`. Still in tinker I add a row:
 

=> App\Models\Gallery {#3346

     name: "adsf",

     date: "1990-01-01 00:00:00",

     description: "asdf",

     slug: "adsf-1",

     updated_at: "2019-03-17 21:32:11",

     created_at: "2019-03-17 21:32:11",

     id: 27,

   }

 
note: *id=27*. I open the table in a viewer and it shows 1 record with id=27. What tf happend to the 26 records I imported?