Auction

Valentine’s Day? Father’s Day? His birthday? Finding the right gift for him can be a yearly challenge for partners, siblings, and children alike.

Items include fine sterling silver – spectacular individual pieces and flatware services by famous makers – plus Gucci and David Webb jewelry, Montblanc pens, Herend, Swarovski, toys, more.

Other highlights: High-grade single-sided tin sign for Ace High Motor Oil; Canadian twin 10-gallon double visible gas pump; Red Hat Motor Oil flange sign; Flying A and Tioga gasoline signs.

The antique Bible, diminutive at just 7 inches by 4 ¾ inches and in fair condition, was the top lot in the virtual online auction of the estate of Peter Hickey, held on-site in Newburyport, Mass.

Featured: Rare, single-pontil End of Day marble with heavy floating blizzard mica; pink opaque lutz marble with red bands; shrunken core onionskin marble with white, yellow, orange and blue colors.

Beer baths, brunch alternatives and self-care experiences redefine how families celebrate Mom.

Featured: Mussolini’s Marshall of the Empire hat, hundreds of Nazi items including general’s Panzer assault gun wrapper uniform, Luftwaffe paratrooper’s helmet; swords, German & Japanese binoculars.

Highlights: Pair of circa 100-300 AD Royal Moche gold and mosaic ear ornaments, $82,500; large openwork Veraguas-Diquis gold pendant, $30,550; finely-carved Chinese jade cup, $19,500.

Highlights: pre-1915 Case 6346½ three-back spring whittler with old Rogers bone handles salesman’s sample, $9,225; Michael Walker prototype folder with Damascus blade, $5,412.

Highlights: March 1941 Captain America Comics #1, $71,554; Star Wars Jawa action figure of the initial ‘Vinyl Cape’ variety, $55,152; Cox and Roosevelt 1920 Democratic jugate button, $45,578.

Artworks are by such notables as Keith Haring, Hunt Slonem, Roy Lichtenstein, Enio Iommi, Stephen Rolfe Powell, Steve Penley, Roland Topor, Nathaniel Kaz, Dan Dailey, Ed Paschke.

Property from the collection of Mary Frances and John H. “Jack” Wood of Montclair, New Jersey will be sold on April 29, followed by a Chic and Antique Auction on April 30-May 1.

The auction will feature over 150 lots of quality paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture, with an emphasis on top-quality American art and fresh-to-the-market offerings, at shannons. com.

Tesla, Einstein & the American Presidency: Rare Autographs & Historical Documents Auction, Buyers can register and bid now, at OAKauctions. com.

Other items in the auction are signed by Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, J. D. Salinger, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, many others, starting at 10am Eastern.

Featured: US Bust Half Dollar coin with desirable 1806/5 overdate, graded PCGS MS63+; Gem-grade 1879-CC Morgan Dollar; 1798/7 overdate $10 Capped Bust Heraldic Eagle coin with 9x4 stars.