What would you do with inherited jewellery you don't wear?

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Four pieces that have mild sentimental value but have been sitting (expensively insured) in our safe for the past decade. DCs and partners don't want it (anti-mined diamonds) and they never knew the great grandparent it was passed down from. My Mum doesn't want it - she inherited it about twenty years ago, never wore it and passed it down to me.

Would you sell it? Keep it in case a DC or partner changes their mind? Have some of it remade into something else I won't wear?

I sold my mum’s rings, which I could never have worn, and bought a beautiful sapphire and diamond ring, which I wear all the time. Mum’s rings stuck in a drawer never saw the light of day. When I wear my new ring I think about my mum.

DSIS and I were gifted a diamond solitaire each by DM - they had been passed down from Aunts I think.
when DSIS sadly died, I had both diamonds reset together as a “Toi et Moi” style ring which I wear as much as possible. It was quite a lot to have it done (£1800) but I was able to design it exactly how I wanted it

I'm pleased this thread has been resurrected. I posted upthread about having my mum's rings remodelled. Well, it's done and it's fabulous! I had a set of 4 stacker rings made and added two stones I had, a sapphire ring I wore a lot and the other, an emerald pendant, I never wore. A 5th ring is being added at the minute as there were some diamonds left. I used a bracelet I never wore to pay for it. It's so much better than the jewellery sitting in a drawer.

That sounds a lot @Chocolateteabag I'm ssuming you had to buy gold?

My engagement ring is a Toi etc moi. Was a vintage ring I fell in love with at the jewellers in 1977