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The box is decorated with a central trophy on  the lid composed of a balloon and scientific instruments, representing Science, and on the base with a trophy of musical instruments and a score, representing Music.  \n\nThe balloon appears from the open mouth at the base of its sack to be of hot-air type.  In 1783 in France manned flight was achieved with both gas and hot-air balloons.  After trials with animals, a tethered hot-air balloon designed by Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier flew with two people on 19 October 1783 in Paris, and the first free flight with human beings took place on 21 November 1783. ","physicalDescription":"Oval gold box.  The lid is centred by a framed oval reserve containing a trophy of scientific instruments and a white balloon.  On either side is a panel with bright-cut edges and a small reserve with foliage.  Around the outside of the rim runs a border composed of a white ribbon interwoven with a wreath of leaves.  On the sides at  the ends and at the centre of the front and the back there are four oval reserves, each containing a festooned white vase on a matted ground.  Between these oval reserves are panels with bright-cut borders, each panel divided in the middle by a pilaster surmounted by a wreathed head.  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