![]() ![]() This tiny soroban came in a lot of 6 abaci I purchased on Ebay. Inches by 3.5 inches and is 7/8 of an inch deep. It was purchased at auction on Ebay and came with a dark blue velvet MATE EL-8048 was released in January of 1979 and is made entirely of New idea with the traditional soroban Sharp hoped to sway a doubting public. Soroban, these new calculators were looked upon with suspicion. But for the Japanese who were used to the traditional ![]() Were becoming less expensive and were gaining popularity in many It was a time when electronic calculators The soroban has reinforced metal ends and measures 15 inches x 2.5 inches.Įlectronics began making "SoroCal" (sorokaru or sorotaku If you look closely you can see it's dated It's the name and address of a previous owner. On the supporting slats at theīack of the soroban I found two stickers one for for the Perkins Company and another that's quite faded but still The soroban came with a flyer( 120kb pdf file) for a company called The centre unit marker has three dots grouped together - red in the middle flanked by black onĮither side. Lovely 27 rod, 1:4 bead soroban purchased on Ebay in 2002. The bead configuration is the older 1:5 style. When I first saw it, it looked like it had been stored in someone's garden shed because it wasĬovered with dirt. I was told it had been used by a Japanese shopkeeper working This soroban was found at an estate sale in Massachusetts. Shopkeepers find it easier to do calculations using a larger frame. It's 15.5 inches long by 3 inches wide.Ī merchant soroban, so called because it is quite a bit larger than the two soroban above. ![]() The soroban has 27 rods with 1 bead above the beam and 5 beads below. The box.) The box is made of cedar and has kept the soroban in perfect condition for nearly 100 years. The box has been branded with the same name. The Kanji on the box reads Yanagisawa which means "Willow on the Marsh". Purchased at an outdoor market next to a Shinto shrine in a suburb of Tokyo. With its ebony frame, bone reckoning bar and black inlay unit markers this is the most beautiful of all my soroban. It measures 15 inches long by 2.5 inches wide and the beads are about 1.25 cm across. This is a real workhorse and one of my favorites. This one is a very typical 1:4 bead, 27 rod soroban circa 1960. A lot of people are surprised at the small size of modern-day soroban, especially if they first The soroban is very heavy due in part to the stainless steel that reinforces the back of the Soroban was found in a "recycle shop" (second hand store) in Hachinohe, a city at the northern tip of the It's by far the heftiest of any of the pieces I own. This suan pan is 15 inches long by 7 inches wide and weighs just over 1 Construction is a typical 13 rod frame withĢ beads above the beam and 5 beads below. Over the years the reinforcing copper end-plates have become aged with green. Flags from all over the world decorate theįrame. Signifying units, tens, hundreds, thousands and ten thousands. Starting at the sixth rod in from the right, a previous owner has carved out Chinese characters Symbols into the beams of a hardworking suan pan to help keep track of calculations. As a result, it's common practice for owners to carve Typically suan pan are not marked with unit rods. Sister in law purchased this Chinese suan pan in "an old dusty shop" nearġ950. (Click on the thumbnails for more detail.) 算盤 Abacus Photo Gallery - Abacus Photographs. ![]()
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