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- <text id=93TT1278>
- <title>
- Mar. 29, 1993: The Art of the Deal
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 15
- BUSINESS
- The Art of the Deal
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- <body>
- <p>There's gold in them certificates, discovers a Disney investor
- </p>
- <p> There was Pop Art. And Op Art. Now comes the latest
- postmodernist art form: Stock Art. Michigan entrepreneur
- Lawrence Wilsher is offering the public single shares,
- appropriately framed, of the Walt Disney Co. He sells the
- certificates not for their face value but rather for their worth
- as actual works of art--replete with Walt's visage and images
- of such classic Disney characters as Bambi, Dumbo and Mickey.
- Wilsher's mixing of art and finance earned the scrutiny of the
- Securities and Exchange Commission, but the agency has confirmed
- that he does not have to register as a broker as long as he
- offers only framed certificates at well above market price. He
- charges $112, frame included, for a Disney share that brings $45
- on the Big Board.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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