11.5" x 15.5"
Paper, Wax and Metal
Porto, PORTUGAL
THIS IS AN ONGOING ITEM!

Spectaculaire! We have flown one! Pix *and* video this way!

Actually not sure where the real origins of these are, I just know in Portugal this balloon is used for the São João Festival. As a kid in the 70s in Sweden, my sister and her boyfriend made the same type of balloons from scratch. It was a days work to cut and glue the different parts of the balloon together and when the evening came, the entire family went outside to fill the balloon with hot air with the help of a torch or hot air gun. Quite so often, it ended up in a dramatic fire. This comes with wax to light so it takes off up, up and away. Nice gift, cousin to our surprise ball.