Topic: Hot air balloon paperweight

[Wuff]

I have recently acquired this weight - and would appreciate your comments:

(http://www.seelentags.de/pw/bonnin-maret-pw1-200.jpg) (http://www.seelentags.de/pw/bonnin-maret-pw4-200.jpg) (http://www.seelentags.de/pw/bonnin-maret-pw5-200.jpg) (http://www.seelentags.de/pw/bonnin-maret-pw6-200.jpg)
Click on images for larger view.

I assume this to be Murano - confirmation or objection?
Anyone have a guess about the date - is 1984 likely (200th anniversary)?

Anyone into hot air ballooning? I could not find any info on an "imporant" flight for that date - do you know more about it (though this is not really this board's topic)?

Best regards  -  Wolf

[KevinH]

Murano - yes.

Ferro & Lazzarini - could be any time from around mid-1970s (or even earlier?). 1985 quite possible.

They made many weights with this type of design (double garland around image), perhaps most being the "Zodiac" series.

[Frank]

These may know...
http://www.ballonpostzegels.nl/Engels/Divers/aardewerk.html
but their history page is under development...

One of these is supposed to have the same inscription http://www.goantiques.com/scripts/images,id,1479221.html

[Wuff]

These may know...

Thanks - I had already sent them an email yesterday .

[Anne]

This looks like the event Wuff, the balloon matches your weight image as does the date: http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10410920

Engraving by Debuigne after a drawing by Sellon, showing a hot-air balloon, ‘Le Marseillos’, ascending from Marseilles in France on 8 May 1784.