More detail on the winners.  Based on information from various sources,
here is the result of the Gerald Stonehill library offering, as sold
at Christies auction on May 31st in South Kensington, U.K.

According to Julian Dyer, familiar to all as the editor (and now roll
recutter) in London of the Player Piano Group publication:

  "The rolls purchased by an anonymous gentleman straight off the
plane, apparently, with his wheeled case and duty-free bag.  He simply
stuck up his bidding paddle and kept it there until everyone else gave
up!  No idea who it was.  Went for about three times the market rate
for a normal collection."

  "Rolls went for $48,000 pounds (about $13.00 per in conversion to
dollars) and the Steinway beauty was also obtained by the same, for an
unknown amount," the quote from Dr. Frank Csik of Toronto, Canada, who
secured the "robot."

This information has since been confirmed as the approximately-correct
disposition of the three lots.  "Our man" in France, Douglas Heffer
(along with Philippe Rouillé) has been working for more than a year
to adjust and regulate the various automata (now including the
aforementioned) in a to-be-opened museum in Moscow devoted to the
instruments we know and cherish.  He states that his contact, a man
named David, made the buys.  So now the fabled Stonehill collection
will be on view and will be heard in Russia's principal city at some
point in the near future.

I was given the basic information from Laurence Fisher, contact person
for Christie's, who stated that the company doesn't permit disclosure
of the individual successful bidders, nor the amounts by these
participants, but he could reveal that "both the rolls and the Steinway
have found a home in a Russian museum."

Hope this is of interest and is basically correct, as to the outcome,

Albert M. Petrak, Founder
The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation