The traditional auction of mechanical music and automata will take
place in Chartres, France (one hour from Paris) on Sunday, May 16,
2010.

There are about 192 items for sale:

    -- ca. fifty good automata and some singing birds in cage.
    By Bontems, Decamps, Elie Martin, Lambert, Phalibois, Renou,
    Farkas, Vichy (Bob et son cochon savant, Bob and his learned pig).

    -- many items in mechanical music, among them:

    Very rare Russian barrel organ by Ivan Vassilievitch Netchada,
        Odessa; 26 notes, 6 registers, ca. 1900;
    A good 1881 barrel organ by Poirot, Mirecourt, 26 notes, 2
        registers, 2 cylinders with eight songs each (including "La
        Marseillaise");
    An orchestral musical box with drum and six bells;
    Two musical picture clocks;
    Many musical novelties (clocks, pianos, pneumatic accordion, etc.);
    Related books, documentation, etc.

The catalogue in French is posted on the MMD website at:
    http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Auctions 
and also on the French auction website:
    http://www.interencheres.com/28001 

All inquiries should be directed only to the auction house, Galerie de
Chartres (chartres@galeriedechartres.com.geentroep [delete .geentroep])
The Gallery's complete address, telephone, fax, etc. is on the "News"
section of the Musicamecanica website:
    http://www.musicamecanica.org/musica_mecanica/a/actu/index.html  

Denis Lambotte (new consultant in charge and friend of former
    consultant Philippe Rouillé)
Paris, France