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In fact, two auctions of Reilly's Napoleonic collection were held to raise funds. The first, a substantial sale of prints, books, autographs, miniatures, portraits, statuettes, and other items, was conducted by the American Art Association at the American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, on the 4th and 5th of May 1921. The second took place in London, where Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge held a separate sale of Napoleonic coins, medals, decorations, and related items on the 13th of July 1921. As for Basil Zaharoff, biographers such as Richard Deacon and Richard B. Spence have suggested that, around 1912, while posing in St Petersburg as a wealthy antique dealer and businessman, Reilly was tasked, possibly by the Okhrana, with befriending and profiling Zaharoff. Spence goes further, proposing that Reilly absorbed Zaharoff's système: the art of playing opposing sides in a conflict against one another, thereby maximising one's profits from arms sales. A notably brisk method of turning international discord into a business opportunity. Finally, it wasn't a BBC production. Reilly: Ace of Spies was a British miniseries produced by Euston Films for Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV.