the world’s leading source for very high quality mother-of-pearl

the world's leading source for very high quality mother-of-pearl
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Duke of Pearl

Since 1967 we’ve been the world’s best source for top quality mother-of-pearl (“MOP”) and abalone shell materials used in stringed instrument inlay, reverse glass signage, furniture, marquetry, jewelry, and a wide variety of other crafts. We’re co-inventors of the wildly successful laminated shell material known as ABALAM. Often copied but never surpassed!

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Craftsmen have been using mother of pearl, abalone, and other pearlescent marine shells for many thousands of years.

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SHELL NAMES, ORIGINS, AND NOTES

silver-lip ocean pearl oyster, gold-lip ocean pearl oyster, wing shell, black-lip ocean pearl oyster, capiz. pen shell, and more...

Shell Names, Origins and Notes