Dear MMDs,  The traditional auction of mechanical music and automatas
will take place in Chartres (1 hour from Paris, France) on Sunday, May
20th, 2012.  Ca. 280 items are for sale:

- About 20 good automatas and automaton toys by Roullet Decamps,
Gustave Vichy, Lambert and Renou.

- Many items in mechanical music, amidst them:

- One 'Limonaire' 49-notes with original Art Nouveau front;

- One Dutch street organ, 48 notes;

- One black forest clock by Joseph Klein with a 22-note organ;

- Many various musical boxes (cylinder) by Paillard, Heller,
Billon-Haller or (discs) by Symphonion, Polyphon, etc.;

- Many musical novelties (albums, tiles, etc.);

- A very large collection of cylinder and disc phonographs (150 items)
from M. Lacrout's collection;

- Related books, documentation, etc.

The catalogue in French is now on:

  http://www.aaimm.org/spip/spip.php?article6 

It is already posted, as usual, on the MMD web site:

  http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Auctions/Chartres1205/index.html 

All inquiries should be directed only to the auction house, Galerie
de Chartres, at <chartres@galeriedechartres.com.geentroep> [delete
".geentroep" to reply].  Their complete address, telephone, fax, etc.
is on the "News" section of the web site musicamecanica at

  http://www.aaimm.org/spip/IMG/pdf/Chartres_catalogue_20120520.pdf 

Denis Lambotte is the consultant in charge.  You may look at the
Chartres catalogues with the realized prices these last years on the
MMD web site at http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Auctions 

I wish you all a fine day!

Best regards,
Jean-Marc Lebout
http://www.musicamecanica.org/