Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — Mother of Pearl. [ARTICLE]

Mother of Pearl.

Mother of pearl is the hard, silvery, brilliant substance which forms the Internal layers of several kinds of shells. The Interior of our common oyster shells is of tills nature, but the mother of pearl used In the arts is much more variegated with a play of colors. The large shells of the Indian seas alone have this pearly substance of sufficient thickness to be of use.