Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-02-06 | Page 3 | Oyster-Shell Window Panes

Oyster-Shell Window Panes. On the west coaat of India is found a species of oyster, Placuna placenta, placen-ta, whose shell consists of a pair of roughly circular plates about bIx Inches in diameter, thin and white. At present these oysters are collected for the pearls which they often contain, con-tain, although few are fit for. the use t of the jeweler. But in the early days ; of English rule in India the shells were employed for window-panes. Cut into little squares, they produced a very pretty effect admitting light like frosted glass. When the Bombay cathedral ca-thedral was built, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, Its windows were paned with thepe oyeter sheila. In Goa they are still thus employed.