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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
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 15
BUSINESS
The Art of the Deal
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<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.
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</body>
</article>
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