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Skull linked to secret Yale society to be sold
Anonymous seller places infamous 1872 human skull on auction block



This undated photo provided by Christie's shows
the 1872 ballot box belonging to Yale's secretive Skull and Bones
society that is being offered for sale at Christie's New York City auction house.
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updated 3:19 p.m. ET, Tues., Jan. 5, 2010
NEW YORK - A human skull that apparently was turned into a ballot box for Yale's mysterious Skull and Bones society is going on the auction block.

Christie's estimates the skull will sell for $10,000 to $20,000 when it is auctioned on Jan. 22. Fittingly, the auction house has agreed to keep the seller's name a secret. On Monday, it described the person only as a European art collector.

The skull is fitted with a hinged flap and is believed to have been used during voting at the famous society's meetings. 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.

Skull and Bones, an elite society founded in 1832, has closely guarded its members' names and its activities since the early 1970s. Prior to that time, the group published an annual roster.

Publicly known members, known as Bonesmen, include President William Howard Taft, both presidents Bush, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, businessman and diplomat Averell Harriman, publisher Henry Luce and author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr.

"I think it's a macabre artifact," Margot Rosenberg, head of Christie's American decorative arts department, said Tuesday. "It's an intriguing story tied to America, tied to Yale. I think it will generate interest for people who are former Bonesmen, people who collect Americana, people who are interested in history."

The skull is believed to have been owned by Edward T. Owen, who was graduated from Yale in 1872 and went to become professor of French and linguistics at the University of Wisconsin. The word THOR is etched into the skull; it may have been the nickname given to Owen or another society member.

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. It contains the names and photographs of about 50 Bonesmen, including Taft, who became the 27th president of the United States; Morrison Remick Waite, who became U.S. chief justice in 1874; and William Maxwell Evarts, who served as U.S. secretary of state and U.S. attorney general.

Skull and Bones invites 15 Yale seniors to join each year. Bonesmen swear an oath of secrecy about the group and its strange rituals, which include initiation rites such as confessing sexual secrets and kissing a skull.

On Tuesday, the society's secrecy remained intact. Efforts to reach a society member or a representative of its business arm, the Russell Trust Association, through a Yale spokesman were unsuccessful. The Ivy League school, which is not affiliated with the society, did not return a reporter's call.

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That's just sick. They should be charged for having it there. I reminds me, I wonder if Geronimo's skull was ever returned. The last I heard their was a court case over it. I don't imagine that would do much good with all the high profile S&Bs members in the judicial system.

That's crazy, interesting coming from a mainstream source.

Nice post reuniteR about how sick, as lighteniing said above, the elitists in the USA are. There is an old story Lightening going back for many years that the skull in the picture above is the actual skull of geronimo. This was started way back by some of the members of the skull and bones right after they formed the group.

It is also a part of historic fact that Geronimo's grave was robbed at fort Sill Oklahoma shortly after he was buried, and the skull members bragged about having it.

I would not doubt that it is the actual skull of Geronimo as these FREAKS have no shame about killing or robbing graves.

Also I remember hearing about the Geronimo skull court case a while back. I would like to bet that the announced court case over the skull of Geronimo is a total farce. I would not doubt that the S&B's arranged that case so that they could sell the real one without any uproar from the public.

I don't trust anything they say. And is it not a great coincidence that the Geronimo skull is in court just as the S&B's wants to sell theirs???

I smell a rat.

Here is a link about the grave robbery of Geronimo and SOME PERSON NAMED PRESSCOTT BUSH being involved in it.......Hummm... I wonder where I heard that name before????LOL


Here is a link to the story of our presidents grandfather the thief.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06128/688443-84.stm

Far out good work guys!!!

When I read the article I was so suprised that they were auctioning off a Human Skull from those that be. Man didn't anyone at the auction ask the question of WHOS skull it may be ?

The fricking media didn't even pose that question, that was the first question that popped into my thought when I read the article.

Yes Gabe I've read the same articles linking the Bush grandfather to the theft of Geronimo's skull. Too much of a coincidence I think.

These people are amazing in their evil.