The skull is being sold with a black book, inscribed with Owen's name, the year 1872 and the numeral 322, a reference to the society's year of inception and to the death of the orator Demosthenes in 322 B.C.
I think it will generate interest for people who are former Bonesmen, people who collect Americana, people who are interested in history." "It's an intriguing story tied to America, tied to Yale.
"I think it's a macabre artifact," Margot Rosenberg, head of Christie's American decorative arts department, said Tuesday. John Kerry, businessman and diplomat Averell Harriman, publisher Henry Luce and author and commentator William F. Publicly known members, known as Bonesmen, include President William Howard Taft, both presidents Bush, Massachusetts Sen. Prior to that time, the group published an annual roster. Skull and Bones, an elite society founded in 1832, has closely guarded its members' names and its activities since the early 1970s. The auction house said it also may have been displayed at the society's tomblike headquarters on Yale's campus in New Haven, Conn., during the late 1800s. She resides in the Inner Temple and protects founding papers and other important society documents.The skull is fitted with a hinged flap and is believed to have been used during voting at the famous society's meetings. "Madame Pompadour," a skeleton which Bonesmen believe to be Madame de Pompadour. There were socks underneath the couch, old half-deflated soccer balls lying around."ġ0. He told Robbins it was "A place that used to be really nice but felt kind of beat up, lived in. Crazy, huh? Despite the presence of skulls and gravestones and coffins, one member said the Tomb was a lot like a college dorm, just swathed in more secrecy. She likened it to the Addams Family "“ kind of "funny-spooky."ĩ. A conservator in Connecticut spent six years restoring 15 paintings from the Skull and Bones headquarters and says the inside isn't all that foreboding. Large portraits of its most famous members, including William Howard Taft and George H.W.
Giles' Church in Wrexham, Wales, and is now sitting in a glass case in the Tomb.Ĩ. Robbins says the original gravestone of Elihu Yale was stolen from its original spot on the grounds of St. So keep your silverware, Skull and Bones. His Rolls Royce is in Cochise, Arizona his hat and coat are in Atlanta some of his beer steins are in Lomita, California his desk keys are in Estes Park, Colorado and his supposed horse is buried in St. His tea service resides in Anniston, Alabama, and his typewriter has a home in Bessemer. This isn't nearly as special as you might think, though: just head to Alabama to see some Fuhrer relics. And they're every bit as mean as he was, you know.Ĥ. But why Van Buren? Your guess is as good as mine"¦ one thing's for sure, though: the Van Buren Boys certainly aren't going to be happy about this. This one has never been even remotely proved and for all we know, all parts of Van Buren are still safely buried in the Kinderhook Cemetery in Kinderhook, N.Y. presidents in their ranks, I guess it makes sense that the Bones would have a presidential skull hidden away somewhere. Robbins originally confirmed in her book that Skull and Bones was definitely in possession of Villa's cabeza, but has since retracted that. Skull and Bones has denied this, of course, and some members have gone off the record saying that the society is way too cheap to pay that kind of money for a skull. The rumor is that the society bought the skull for $25,000 in 1926, shortly after the skull was stolen from Villa's grave.
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