consigner

After 90 days, some items are returned to the consigner or donated to charity.

The Episcopal church where it was found was the consigner.

High reserves - the price below which the consigner will not sell a work - prevented all but five of these paintings from finding buyers.

The consigner is Agnew's, the London gallery.

Most stores follow a formula: items are priced at one-third of regular retail, with the consigner receiving 50 percent of the sale.

Stock is seasonal, and unsold merchandise is generally returned to the consigner or donated to a charity after two or three months.

The Broadway connection is another consigner, this time a friend whom they will identify only as being connected with Neil Simon's plays.

Unlike most consignment stores, Twice Upon a Time keeps 60 percent of the sale price and gives the consigner 40 percent.

The consigner, who has not been identified, told Sotheby's that the table was owned in the mid-19th century by a Mme.

The consigner is looking for the brass ring here with an estimate of $225,000-$300,000, which given the obvious quality, doesn't seem nutty.

The consigner wants to remain anonymous, said Lanto Synge, chief executive of Mallett.

An appointment must be made to take in merchandise for consignment or donation, and consignment rates vary; most, but not all, stores split 50-50 with the consigner.

She added that the consigner, who has not been identified, told her that the image was acquired in 1951 from Sybil Moholy-Nagy, the artist's widow.

The report's consigner, Donald Zammit, discovered the document in September, when he cleaned out the Manhattan apartment of his father, who had just passed away.

Sometimes customers will ask Ms. Olsen if the consigner lives in Scarsdale and will shy away from buying an item from their home town.

"The consigner of lot number one, our only lot today, is the Navajo Nation, in a trust arrangement with the government of the United States of America."

The work resurfaced in 1984 at an auction in Munich where it was put up by an unidentified consigner and bought by an unidentified purchaser for about $24,000.

A spokesman for Sotheby's, Matthew Weigman, said the German reference had been dropped at the request of the consigner for fear "the listing would only hurt the picture."

One early consigner was Scott Berman, an East Hampton art collector and restaurateur, with 10 pieces in the auction, including works by Williams, Wilcox and Lichtenstein.

(The sale was postponed after the death of Dodi Fayed, son of the consigner, Mohammed Al Fayed.)

When deciding on packing for a piece of cargo, the freight forwarder needs to ensure that the goods are received in the same condition as when they left the consigner, warehouse or factory.

The word consignment comes from the French consigner, meaning "to hand over or transmit", originally from the Latin consignare "to affix a seal", as was done with official documents just before being sent.

Christie's spokesman, Vredy Lytsman, said yesterday that the auction house was "still satisfied that the consigner has a legal right to sell the document," and that the auction would take place as scheduled.

The photo was one of a group of twenty-eight Rodchenko photographs which were given to the consigner in 1960 by Varvara Rodchenko, the artist's daughter, and which raised £445,648 in total.

When announcing changes to the format of the September Sale in March 2010, Keeneland president and CEO Nick Nicholson said consigner preference made a return of the July sale unlikely.