Colorful Wooden Abacus with Nice Old Paint vintage Mexican one inside the next

one inside the next

Maybe it's because it's a gray January as I post them

and think I would have liked its star

and then looping and spiraling all over the face of the brush in a seemingly improvisatory manner

or a bird of paradise would be pretty fabulous in it too

Colorful Wooden Abacus with Nice Old Paint vintage Mexican one inside the nextThough I realize there are not many abacus users these days, I really love them as objects and occasionally I come across one I can't resist, like this one. I'm not sure the maker but surely 1950s 60s or so, with great color, great form, and great aging to the paint. This one was certainly made as a teaching toy for children, but it could be coopted to serve as a weekly or monthly tallying device for all sorts of things (i. e. green equals good deeds