Extra Pretty and Nicely Designed Old Abacus with Hand-written Numbers pencil and watercolor with plenty of wear to

with plenty of wear to both the paint and wood of the wheels

But there are a few I like a lot

Martha Arquero (1944-) is a well known Cochiti pueblo artist best known for her "frog storytellers" like this one

and is definitely the best

it shows all of those years

Extra Pretty and Nicely Designed Old Abacus with Hand-written Numbers pencil and watercolor with plenty of wear toI love an abacus, but there are a lot of them out there and I usually make myself let them go. This, though, is the loveliest abacus I've seen in a long while, with an unusual recessed design, and a nice softness to the color on the wooden beads. Plus someone long ago wrote numbers in increments of ten down the left side in red, and scribbled a few other things on it as well, making it warmly personal in addition to beautifully minimal, to me a very