Stuffed And Mounted: Blonde, Redhead, Or Brunette?

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s there seems to have been a bit of fad, trope, or fetish around visuals of stuffed and mounted human heads in the style of taxidermied big game trophies. You might think this was horribly misogynist (and it surely was) but guys got objectified this way also. What I did not know until today is that the whole uneasy business went so far, you could literally order plastic “Conquest” trophy mounts from the back pages of sleazy magazines. Per the charming sales copy, “one of the nicest qualities is that they don’t talk back!”

Who knew that the uncanny valley problem was alive and well in the pre-digital age?

This advertisement comes from the September 1959 issue of Guy magazine, and the text reads:

“Stuffed” Girl’s Heads! only $2.98

Blondes, redheads and brunettes for every man to boast of his conquests… the first realistic likeness of the exciting women who play an important part in every man’s life… and one of the nicest qualities is that they don’t talk back! Accurately modelled to three-quarters life size of real gals and molded of skin-textured pliable plastic, these heads are so life-like they almost breathe. Saucy glittering full sensuous mouth and liquid satin complexion combined with radiant hair colors give astonishing realism to these rare and unique Trophies. Blonds, redhead or brunette mounted on a genuine mahogany plaque is complete and ready to hang on the wall for excitement and conversation. Only $2.98 plus 37¢ shipping charges. Full Money Back Guarantee. Specify Blonde, Brunette or Red head. Send Cash, Check, or Money Order, or order C.O.D. from:
Honor House Products Corp.
Dept. MT-22
Lynbrook, New York

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Teen Amazon Sweater Girl Huntress And Her Trophy Guys

Remember “Lucky Tiger”, the hair tonic advertising mascot who had a display wall of stuffed-and-mounted naked-women taxidermy trophies? That human trophy wall wasn’t weird nor creepy, no indeed never it wasn’t. (You could literally send off hair tonic box tops or hair wax labels to get a picture of these feminine trophies “suitable for framing.”)

Well, sometimes goose and gander really do get slathered in the identical creepy sauce. Under the headline “New Teen Decorating Ideas” on the cover of the September-October 1960 issue of Going Steady magazine, we find the very same concept with the gender polarities flipped. This time the hunter is a teen sweater girl Amazon, and she’s literally fondling one of her wall-display trophy guys:

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Stuffed And Mounted: Linda, Lola, & Louise

This is from an ad for Lucky Tiger hair tonic in an old Esquire magazine:

Now, the “our product will help you catch girls” advertising line is as ancient as advertising, and treating women as trophies and/or loot in the imagery is a tradition just as venerable. A man sees; a man is not surprised. But still. Notice how the notional capes were generously cut so the trophies could be — dammit, the word is “mounted” — to display cleavage? Notice how the trophy nameplates are all girls from the “L” gallery of his extensive collection? Notice how the reader is invited to pick one out for himself? That asterisk is not helping, either; it leads to prose at the bottom of the ad that offers “a picture of Linda, Lola, and Louise suitable for framing” in exchange for a box top.

A different era. Me? Not so nostalgic for it.

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