Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...
The most expensive pearl ever sold was Marie Antoinette's pendant. It sold for $32 million ... the mollusk starts to coat the debris with nacre, or mother-of-pearl, the same material that lines ...
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