Old Abacus - Chinese Abacus

Abacus:

- Old chinese Abacus.
- This Abacus is from China. It is a Traditionnal piece.
- The abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use centuries before the adoption of the written modern numeral system and is still widely used by merchants, traders and clerks in Asia( China)
- Today, abaci are often constructed as a bamboo frame with beads sliding on wires, but originally they were beans or stones moved in grooves in sand or on tablets of wood, stone, or metal. The user of an abacus is called an abacist.