The shop's most valuable consignment was a few blocks away, at Sotheby's, under high security: a Stradivarius viola, known as the Macdonald.
Taylor has a couple of consignment shops, a few hair cutteries, several cotton gins, and two barbecue restaurants, Rudy Mikeska's and Louie Mueller's, that look as though they've been around a good long time.
The store owner, Bruce Tilley, who worked for Alexander Julian, said that in researching furniture consignment he found a few online sources and a few brick-and-mortar thrift shops, but not much else for show-house pieces, items long in storage and purchases that decorators made for clients that did not work out.
In front of the consignment store, which sold a few of his old jerseys, Smith hopped on his daughter's tiny purple bike.
The goodwill of a progressive company will stretch to a few failed consignments, but it is unreasonable to expect them to adjust to the vagaries of smallholder agriculture.
And so, after a few calls to local consignment shops, we move on to our closets.
For a few years, Flight Club's consignment store — formerly on Lafayette, and now in a better-curated version on Greene — has been a place of comfort, as close as I can come to shopping in my own teenage closet.
Lastly, only a few papers have examined the consignment clearance system in detail presumably because of the difficulty associated with collecting examples and cases concerning customs operations.
Silver took a few vintage pieces to sell on consignment — "It's not going to fit anyone, so I don't want to hold on to much of it," he said.
A few months ago, he said, a consignment of 300 tonnes of rosewood that had left Madagascar without going through customs was intercepted in the Comoros Islands nearby - a sign that illegal exports would be tackled.
