1930s 14k Gold Abacus Charm pincushions it's surrounded by a cluster

it's surrounded by a cluster of old mine cut diamonds (2

Amitav Ghosh's wonderful novel partly set in the Sunderbans of West Bengal

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they gird themselves with snakes and give suck to fawns and wolf cubs as if they were infants at the breast

1930s 14k Gold Abacus Charm pincushions it's surrounded by a clusterDATE: Art Deco, c. 1930 I ain't no abacus but you can count on me Jamie T, Operation A 14 karat gold working abacus charm dating from the 1930s. I say working (it is) but admittedly it's really quite fiddly to move the individual beads. Until today to my shame I actually had no idea how to use an abacus. It's really quite fascinating, and extremely clever. The technology (aka counting board) spans back to ancient times, and while the exact origin is