The phrase "consignor in" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the person or company who is sending or shipping goods to another party. It can also be used to indicate the origin or source of something. Here is an example: "The consignor in this transaction is responsible for properly packaging and labeling the items before they are shipped to the buyer."
That is more than four times the £2.86 million it had cost the consignor in June 2003.
Acquired by the consignor in 2001 from the artist, who died that same year, the uncompromisingly severe set brought $4.89 million.
Owned by an unidentified consignor in Maine, the pages are three or four feet long, and their ripped edges and handwritten measurement notations suggest they were used at the construction site.
Possibly this and worse crimes have happened; I overheard Ms. Fischer discussing a check forgery with one consignor in low tones, as two spaniels nipped protectively about her heels.
That will be the opening bid when Heritage Auctions offers the very special seat for sale in New York next month, on behalf of an unnamed consignor in Manchester, England.
When Rodin's smaller version of his most famous bronze sculpture "Le Penseur," cast around 1915-17, nearly doubled the high estimate at $4 million, the sale appeared to be set on an unstoppable ascent — the price was more than nine times what it had cost its consignor in November 2001 at Sotheby's New York.
Under the bill Mr. Brodsky introduced an auctioneer would have to make plain a fake bid by saying it was "for the consignor" as in, "I have $1 million for the consignor".
"Sleeping Bacchantes Surprised by Satyrs," signed by François Boucher in 1760, was acquired at Christie's London by this week's consignors in 1972 for the then equivalent of $56,000.
A very rare piece or one done by a well-known artist might put the collector-consignor in a better position to demand a lower commission than a work that is not likely to sell as easily or for as much money.
But the price paid by the consignor on in July 2008 at Sotheby's London was only £5.08 million.
Until the day before the sale, the identity of the consignor, described in the catalogue as having a "distinguished private collection", had been a well-kept secret.
