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289044001
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Abacus; carved from wood; rectangular frame made of four pieces of wood joined together at corners with mortise and tenon joints; twelve metal bars, slightly concave, inserted into holes in inside of long sides of rectangular frame; bars 1-3, 5-7, 9-10 and 12 have four ovoid light-coloured wooden counters, two dark-coloured, then four light-coloured; bar 4 has one light counter, two dark, then one light; bar 8 and 11 have one dark counter, three light, two dark, four light; two green mushroom-shaped pieces of plastic inserted into holes carved in one short side of frame.
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