The phrase "established collection" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you could write: "The library had a well-established collection of rare books".
But the American Wind Power Center has a more established collection of the antique machines.
As well as sourcing recycled plastic from the organic yogurt pots returned to Stonyfield Farms, it has established collection points in Whole Foods stores, making it easy for its customers to send back their Preserve products for recycling.
Since I began working on the project from its early stages, I was able to witness the collection's transformation from a mysterious disarray of boxes to a current established collection.
While the concept of a bank supporting and collecting art is not new — UBS, Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland, to name a few, all have impressive collections and long traditions of funding the arts — a bank opening and operating an institution, especially without an already established collection, is relatively rare.
Nodulisporium isolate TI-13 was discovered as an endophyte of Cassia fistula in the highlands of Thailand using established collection and isolation methods as described previously (Ezra et al. 2004a).
In 1995, the museum adopted a formal policy against acquiring antiquities that lacked documentation or were not part of an established collection.
Established collections, kept intact, are the subject of two new books.
He has established collections at college and university art galleries and museums, including one at Columbia, from which he graduated.
The kerosene lamp market has been sleepy in the last few years, partly because the rarer material is lodged in established collections like Mr. Courter's.
But as American philanthropists bankrolled museum acquisition budgets, and European aristocrats and institutions started breaking up established collections, curators in the United States were able to relegate the reproductions to storage.
Sales were steady at the fairs, but, in fact, the market had not taken an upswing, and many dealers were selling works from established collections to raise cash for their clients.
