George Dashnau

George Dashnau (October 12, 1923 – February 9, 2001) was an advertising executive in Philadelphia who started the first mail order delivery service that supplied human skulls. He was 55 years old when he started the business. In the hope that human skulls would become novelty items, he did not market them for medical purposes but as decorations for home and work. Roger Simmons, of the Chicago Sun-Times, asked Dashnau why he would not reveal where the skulls were from. Dashnau said that he would not reveal where they came from because he did not want imitators using the same supplies. Dashnau said that The Wall Street Journal refused to run his ad.

Death Dashnau died on February 9, 2001, due to a stroke in Willingboro Township, New Jersey. He was buried at Monument Cemetery in Beverly, New Jersey, on February 14, 2001.