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...Rembrandt's The Man with the Golden Helmet, one of the most famous and most majestic portraits ever painted, now turns out to be not by Rembrandt at all. It is not a fake or a forgery, says Jan Kelch, curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings in West Berlin's Staatliche Museum, but rather "an independent original in its own right, with its own independent worth." But what is its independent worth if Rembrandt's masterpiece is not by Rembrandt? Though people who estimate such things promptly lowered its theoretical value from 20 million marks ($8 million) to about...
...acknowledges the confusion. "Most people assume when they see the hat that the Y stands for Yale," he says. "But let it be known that the creator of the Yuppie drinking helmet prefers that Yale doesn't score a point against Harvard...
Although Del Ray says he want the Coop to sell his Yuppie Drinking Helmet, Charles MacDonald--a buyer for the Coop--says he has seen a product similar to Del Ray's called the "Hoser," and does not plan to stock Del Ray's version because of the high price and possibility of price fluctuation...
Even Del Ray, though, who says he originally created the Yuppie Drinking Helmet "as a joke," says he is astonished by the hat's success...
...knew his creation was bound for Yuppiedom when "a Yuppie couple" went to Del Ray's booth in an open air market, and left two empty bottles of Perrier on his counter. Del Ray replaced the beer cans in his display helmet with the Perrier cans...