Extra Pretty and Nicely Designed Old Abacus with Hand-written Numbers Admiral David Farragut 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"

3 1/2" x 5 1/2" inches and in good condition

trimmed in black

and I think this is a pretty iconic one

see photos for a few examples from around the same time

which Harvard cites as having been founded in 1907

Extra Pretty and Nicely Designed Old Abacus with Hand-written Numbers Admiral David Farragut 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"I love an abacus, but there are a lot of them out there and I usually make myself let them go. This, though, is the loveliest abacus I've seen in a long while, with an unusual recessed design, and a nice softness to the color on the wooden beads. Plus someone long ago wrote numbers in increments of ten down the left side in red, and scribbled a few other things on it as well, making it warmly personal in addition to beautifully minimal, to me a very