The automata collection of Jerry and Bunny Steinbaum of Beverly Hills,
California, will be auctioned by Theriault's auction house on Sunday,
November 23, 2008, at the Westin Governor Morris Hotel in Morristown,
New Jersey.  Begun nearly a quarter century ago, the collection
includes models of such rarity that few other examples are known to
exist.

Highlighting the auction is the beautiful Japanese lady mask seller
who offers her wares while gracefully twirling a parasol, the l'Homme
Serpente who performs graceful gymnastic acts, the elegant kneeling
Egyptian harp player whose fingers move over harp strings in a very
naturalistic way while she blinks her eyes, breathes, and gracefully
arches and nods her head (and who appears in motion on the hologram
image cover of the auction catalog), and a very rare Hercules
weight-lifter figure, of which only two others are known to exist.

More information is contained in the news article at
  http://www.theriaults.com/news/article.cfm?aid=199 
The auction catalog may be viewed online at
  http://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=15436 

Robbie Rhodes, MMDigest