consignment
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In the living room, an elegant cream-colored linen sofa from the Home Consignment Center is the main piece.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
Jim Wynne, a former FBI agent who worked that case, noticed a pattern emerging in Doyle’s crimes: Consignment fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
This is Consignment Lounge, the Chicago tavern-meets-curio-shop that calls itself “an aesthetically pleasing collection of useless items for sale inside a neighborhood bar.”
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025
Valerie Schwank owns the Fashionista Consignment Boutique in Coconut Grove, Florida, where she buys and sells luxury goods.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2023
Extract from a Letter from Boston, dated 29th April, 1771, in Answer to a Consignment made in February, 1771, at 3s. 1d., with the whole drawback of £23 18s.
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel)
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