Abacus
Category
Education objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal and wood
Measurements
149 mm (width); 107 mm (height); 21 mm (depth)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 664034
Summary
A small wooden abacus with a black painted rectangle of wood slotted between brown wooden ends. There are ten metal rods across it. Each rod is threaded with ten square beads. These are variously coloured beige, red, pink, green, blue and black and move easily across the metal rods for counting.