Handheld Numeral Frame or Abacus
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Object Details
- Description
- This handheld teaching abacus has twelve horizontal wires held in a wooden frame with handle. Each wire has twelve wooden beads. The two topmost rows of beads are uncolored, the next two rows are green, the four rows below this are yellow, and the four rows at the bottom are (faint) red.
- The general shape of this numeral frame resembles Holbrook's Numerical Frame as sold by J.A. Bancroft & Company of Philadelphia in about 1870, but the coloring of the beads is different.
- No maker's mark.
- Reference:
- J.A. Bancroft & Co., Illustrated Catalog of School Merchandise, Furniture, Apparatus, Charts, &C., Philadelphia, ca. 1870.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Dr. Richard Lodish American School Teaching Collection
- ID Number
- 2014.0293.01
- catalog number
- 2014.0293.01
- accession number
- 2014.0293
- Object Name
- numeral frame
- abacus
- Physical Description
- wood (frame, beads, handle material)
- metal (wires material)
- Measurements
- overall: 38.2 cm x 30.5 cm x 2.8 cm; 15 1/32 in x 12 in x 1 3/32 in
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Abacus
- Science & Mathematics
- Arithmetic Teaching
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1692732
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b1-d345-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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