Dear MMDs,  A large auction of automata and mechanical music
instruments will take place in Chartres (a fine city one hour west
of Paris, France) as usual (two specialized auctions a year, in May
and December) on Sunday, May 20th, starting at 2 p.m.

Ca 200 lots :
Many fine automatas by Decamps, Roullet-Decamps, Lambert (Pierrot
serenading the moon), Phalibois, Renou (a magician clown),
Vichy (The famous and rare bird trainer, and a magic cupboard),
Vichy-Triboulet (a clown juggling on a barrel, and two impertinent clowns),
Michel Bertrand (Pierrot as a writer), etc.

In mechanical music :
Several Black Forest organ clocks
Several organettes and barrel pianos.
Good disc (Polyphon, Fortuna, etc.) and cylinder musical boxes
(a few early ones with separate teeth, some good early snuffboxes),
Fine musical picture-clocks,
Singing birds (Bontems) and many musical novelties
Carved silhouettes by Caran d'Ache
Phonographs, Arcade machines, and documentation

Viewing :
Friday May 18th : 15 to 17 h and 20 h30 to 22 h
Saturday May 19th : 9 to 10h30 (then large auction of dolls)
Sunday May 20th : 10 to 12 h

To order a paper catalogue, please contact the auctioneers :
  Me Jean-Pierre Lelièvre - Pascal Maiche - Alain Paris
  La Galerie de Chartres
  Tel. +33 (0) 2 37 88 28 28   Fax : + 33 (0) 2 37 88 28 20
  E-mail : chartres@galeriedechartres.com

Thanks to Robbie Rhodes, Jody Kravitz and Joyce Brite, the catalogue
(and results) is being posted (and also past auctions and results)
on the web at  http://mmd.foxtail.com/Auctions/

With best regards,
Philippe Rouillé (Paris, France)
http://www.musicamecanica.org