Rainbow Colored Vintage Wooden Abacus with Handle Menu Denmark beautiful patina

beautiful patina

5 3/4" diameter x 1 3/4" tall

which this bowl perfectly exemplifies in the interplay of solid forms

possibly Inuit but unsigned and I'm not entirely sure

A little wear around the edges of the gold painted frame plus tearing to the black paper on the back

Rainbow Colored Vintage Wooden Abacus with Handle Menu Denmark beautiful patinaI love a nice abacus, and think this one, with its rainbow colored beads, is especially lovely and fairly unusual in having a handle, making it easy to calculate on the go! I have found a few other handled examples with a similar form, c. 1940s, which seems about right for this one. Beyond its calculating function, I find abacus' rewardingly useful for tracking of all sorts of things (i. e. move a bead to the left every time you make it to the gym!)