If you are one of those filthy rich tycoons who have celebrated their million dollar treaties with a memento like the one featured here from Icon Recognition then, you will be saddened with the news ahead. The recent economic downturn has taken its toll on Icon Recognition, a company that makes deal toys, the desktop trophies (sometimes called “deal gifts” or “tombstones”) collected by a lot of finance types to commemorate deals. Stephen Sokoler, the president of the company, said he’d been up early working the phones: “You call and ask, ‘Is there anyone who’s announced a deal recently or closed a deal? Anyone you’ve heard of?’” He added, “It feels like we’re a ship in the middle of a storm. Not only are you in the storm but there’s no visibility as to whether the storm’s gonna clear.” The trophy featured here is Merrill Lynch-commissioned gold-plated replica of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.

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