Dear MMD,  the on-line catalogue for Skinner's sale of Mechanical Music
& Automata is now available at www.skinnerinc.com.  The sale features
two hundred lots of mechanical music in many forms: cylinder and disc
musical boxes, early snuff boxes, three overture boxes, musical clocks,
a collection of automata, two orchestrions, barrel organs, coin-op
and phonographs.  The second part of the auction features Science &
Technology, including globes and planetaria, barometers and surveying
instruments.  A fifteen-minute film of selected automata in action is
available to download from http://cpe-68-174-7-225.nyc.res.rr.com/ 

The sale takes place at Skinner's Bolton Gallery (with printed
catalogue) :

357 Main St. (Rt. 117)
Bolton, Massachusetts 01740
Tel. 1-978-779-6241

Best wishes,
Nick Hawkins
http://www.skinnerinc.com/