Rainbow Colored Vintage Wooden Abacus with Handle fun gift 6 3/8" across at lip

6 3/8" across at lip

I really love the elegance of this one

all with different names

These boxes show their age

Living in horse country may be rubbing off on me

Rainbow Colored Vintage Wooden Abacus with Handle fun gift 6 3/8" across at lipI 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!)