As recently as this year, according to the complaint, Mr. Kurniawan was suspected of consigning, through a proxy, auction lots of counterfeit Romanée-Conti wines to be sold in London.
The conventions apply whenever goods have been consigned under a through consignment note for carriage over the territories of at least two of the contracting states and on certain specified lines.
Since discovering the 104-page notebook in what Mr. Launey described as "a recent burst of energy sifting through household papers," he has consigned it for sale through a rare book and manuscript dealer, Locus Solus Rare Books in Manhattan.
The works consigned for sale went through his office rather than Phillips's art department.
One African delegate to the United Nations, Mr. Sanjuan was told, had been barred from an airport restaurant while passing through Atlanta and consigned to a stool in a hangar, where he ate a sandwich wrapped in wax paper.
Having rallied to level the scores thanks to Wayne Rooney's first ever World Cup goal at this third attempt, Gerrard then knocked a weary-looking header straight into the path of Suarez to leave him through on goal, and he duly consigned England to a second straight 2-1 defeat in Brazil.
This is the same governing body which allowed the late Brooks Mileson to preside over Gretna's freakish rise through the leagues before the club were sharply consigned to oblivion.
Some of his choices are perverse, like the decision to rehouse Smiley not in the tragic cubbyhole of a hotel, near Paddington Station, to which le Carré rightly consigned him but in a loftlike affair with sizable windows, through which far too many outsiders could peer.
(Ha!) Still, the West, as opposed to the Midwest, to which I'd consigned the whole of North Dakota in my mind, wasn't quite through with me.
His first exercise as a private dealer came through Drouin, in 1947: some hundred canvases by Kandinsky, consigned by his widow, Nina, a gorgon who seems to have driven a previous agent to a nervous breakdown.
