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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 788 — ARTIFICIAL PEARLS.

William Johnston translation

In the Almanach de Strasburg for 1780, p. 76, among the commodities sold there were, Des écailles d’ablettes dont on tire l’essence d’orient employée pour les fausses perles.

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