A circular wood snuff box, from the Evelyn Way Kendall Ballooning and Early Aviation Collection, with scene of the Montgolfier flight from Versailles on  September 19, 1783. The balloon carried a sheep, a duck and a rooster into the air.

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Dane Penland

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