Soroban – vintage wooden abacus

Vintage handmade Soroban (abacus) from Japan. This wooden Soroban dates from the 1950s. It has fifteen bars with six wooden beads each: one individual bead has a value of five, called go-dama, and four beads each with a value of one, called ichi-dama. A number of names are engraved by hand on the back. The soroban is still used in Japan, despite the rise of affordable electronic and digital (pocket) calculators.

Size: length 11 cm | width 33 cm | height 3 cm
Material: wood, metal bars
Productcode: IN-003

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