Dear MMDs,  The traditional auction of mechanical music and automatas
will take place in Chartres (1 hour from Paris, France) on Sunday,
December 2nd, 2012.  Circa 260 items are for sale:

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

* The Modern Draftsman (Ref 423 in Decamps catalog) ;
* Moorish harpist from Vichy ;
* Black smoker from Roullet Decamps.

- Many items in mechanical music, amidst them:

* large Dutch organ,
* Aeolian Grand Orchestrelle
* Black Forest organ clock with automatons
* Cocchi Bacigalupo street organ
* a good Hicks portable street piano with automaton figures
* Italian 'lanterna' style organ
* 'Uniflute' portable barrel organ by Gavioli

- Many various cylinder musical boxes by

* Samuel Troll (Orchestral box on table),
* Monjon Manger (small interchangeable cylinders),
* Heller, Ulmann, Junod

- Disc music boxes by Symphonion, Polyphon

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

- Related books, documentation, etc.

- Gambling machines (Rol-a-Top) and many phonographs.

The catalogue in French is now on

http://www.interencheres.com/ventes_aux_encheres/description_vente_aux_encheres_1clic.php?clef_etude=28001&clef_vente=201212020003 
and http://www.interencheres.com/medias/28001/201212020003/catalogue/catalogue28001-201212020003.pdf 

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.musicamecanica.org/musica_mecanica/a/actu/index.html 

Denis Lambotte is the consultant in charge.  You may look at the
Chartres catalogues with the realized prices of previous 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/