O’Reilly’s auction house celebrates 75 years in business

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In its more than seven decades in business Dublin auction house O’Reilly’s has seen considerable change In its more than seven decades in business Dublin auction house O’Reilly’s has seen considerable change. Established in 1948 by John O’Reilly, who began as an apprentice at a Dublin pawnbroking office, and subsequently became president of the Irish Pawnbrokers Association, in its early days the company sold everything from household items to silver. It also sold off the lost and found section amassed by the transport group CIÉ. “After the war pawnbroking laws were changed and it meant that unredeemed pledges had to...