Rainbow Colored Vintage Wooden Abacus with Handle carved wood bird This beautiful vintage Japanese lacquer

This beautiful vintage Japanese lacquer box

same balls on wires) attributed to Francisco and dated to the 1970s

Between the star-shaped face of the larger

to understand the play being made

Rainbow Colored Vintage Wooden Abacus with Handle carved wood bird This beautiful vintage Japanese lacquerI 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!)