Handheld Numeral Frame or Abacus
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: No maker's mark.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: J.A. Bancroft & Co., <I>Illustrated Catalog of School Merchandise, Furniture, Apparatus, Charts, &C.</I>, Philadelphia, ca. 1870.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Abacus
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Arithmetic Teaching
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Teaching Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0293.01
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0293.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0293
objectType: label: Object Name
content: numeral frame
label: Object Name
content: abacus
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame, beads, handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (wires material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38.2 cm x 30.5 cm x 2.8 cm; 15 1/32 in x 12 in x 1 3/32 in