An archive of material pertaining to Old West author, artist and historian Ernest L. Reedstrom (1928-2003) sold for $2,625; a USS Utah photo diary of the Tampico Affair of 1914 and the invasion of Veracruz, Mexico, brought $1,750; and a ca. 1894-96 Oriental coffin flask out of Lamar, Colo., lavender in color, realized $1,500 in Holabird Western Americana Collections LLCs Treasures From the Shelves Auction held Feb. 18 and 19, live and online. The auction featured over 1,400 lots in many collecting categories, to include mining, bottles, stocks, philatelic, militaria, Native Americana, numismatics and general Americana. It was an autopilot auction according to Fred Holabird. Every lot opened at $10. Day one contained 757 lots in the categories minerals and mining, general Americana and bottles. The Ernest L. Reedstrom archive was one of the top lots. The archive consisted of seven boxes of materials, including manuscripts and drafts of book chapters and other articles written by Reedstrom. All were from the period of time between 1960s-1990s. Reedstrom wrote several books about the American West, including Apache Wars: An Illustrated Battle History, Historic Dress of the Old West, and Custers 7th Cavalry: From Fort Riley to the Little Bighorn. As an artist, he was known for his paintings and drawings of the Old West. The most intriguing pieces in the collection were original illustrations done by Reedstrom. In early April 1914, the USS Utah was sent to the Gulf port of Tampico to take aboard American refugees who were caught up in the diplomatic conflict. Later that month, the Utah was part of an invasion force sent by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to capture the Mexican port of Veracruz. The photo diary in the Holabird auction was a veritable time capsule of those events. The 91 Real Photo Postcards (RPCs) and handwritten notes on the back appeared to have been written by USMC Charles (Chas) Range to his beloved Bea. His rank and military assignment are unknown. But the images and notes were a unique and powerful first-person photo diary of events that unfolded in the dispute between the U.S. and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. A five-piece Tiffany Zodiac desk set, including a rare match safe, climbed to $1,000. In the early 1900s, Louis C. Tiffany designed 24 different patterned desk sets. The pieces were sold individually, to meet customer demand. Some patterns are rarer than others, making them highly desirable. Nearly 1,000 different set pieces were made from 1900-33 in all patterns combined. Hundreds, if not thousands of reports, correspondence and maps of various mining claims in Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Montana, Washington, California and possibly other states, mostly sent between George Gluck and other individuals involved in the mining industry, discussing the various mining properties in great detail, in four huge binders, fetched $812.50. A variety of ledgers, notebooks, and documents of historical, geological, and metallurgical noteworthiness from the Nevada Consolidated Copper Corporation (NCCC) and Kennecott Copper Corporation (KCC), which purchased NCCC in 1932, found a new owner for $625. Day two featured 722 lots of gaming and tobacciana, jewelry, stocks and bonds, transportation, philatelic, military and firearms, Native Americana and cowboy. A set of 25 Hitleriada Furiosa and Hitleriada Macabra prints by Stanislaw Toegel, from 1945 and 1946, commanded $1,500. Toegel was a lawyer, amateur artist and Polish Army reservist officer. Captured after the fall of Poland in 1939, he escaped and served with the Polish resistance until being taken prisoner once again in the aftermath of the ill-fated Warsaw uprising. Sent to a labor camp at Gottingen, Germany, Toegel was forced to work at a paper mill where, at the risk of instant execution, he drew cartoons ridiculing Hitler and his cohorts, some depicting the atrocities meted out by Hitlers henchman and the cruel depravity of their regime. In 1946, the cartoons were compiled and published in limited quantities. To learn more about this or future sales, call Fred Holabird at 775-851-1859 or 844-492-2766 or visit www.holabirdamericana.com.