Estate in the term Estate jewelry does not refer to jewelry coming from the estate of the deceased but refers to the fact it was previously owned.
Read more about Estate Jewelry: Periods of Estate Jewelry
Famous quotes containing the words estate and/or jewelry:
“Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The demonstrations are always early in the morning, at six o’clock. It’s wonderful, because I’m not doing anything at six anyway, so why not demonstrate?... When you’ve written to your president, to your congressman, to your senator and nothing, nothing has come of it, you take to the streets.”
—Erica Bouza, U.S. jewelry designer and social activist. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 2, section 7, by Studs Terkel (1988)