Celebrating Girls Riding Magical Glass Rocket on Two-Sided Cotton Hot Air Balloon with Washington

9” Tall x 5 1/2” Wide; stunning creation on both sides!

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***Our ornaments are almost exclusively made with vintage and antique materials 1880s-1950 (all colorful die-cut paper illustrations are 120+ years old). Scroll past Special Features for details***

This is a must-have collector’s ornament, magical and storytelling. And who can resist antique soft cotton batting? When I saw these two children, I imagined them riding a rocket and pictured them hanging from a big cotton hot air balloon… and there it was! I had just the right glass candle ornament to transform it by candy-striping and adding my own antique glittered stamens for  fireworks. The two girls perfectly balanced on  rocket looked like it was just meant to be.  George was cut from a turn-of-the-century postcard and all the elements just fell into place! The backside is just as imaginative and speaks of Present Washington’s legacy “I am not a Virginian. I am an American!”  Even the children are backed with an awesome art deco “Christmas Greetings” emblem. Gorgeous rare 1880s metallic gold fabric fringe hangs in graceful curves in a continuous elipse around the balloon.

Lovingly handcrafted by Gail Giaimo

Our Signature Style - To Make an Ornament for You that Lasts for Generations! You will know you have a ultra-custom Dresden Star Work of Art because we sign and date each and every ornament, as well as add our gold hang tag with your specific ornament’s unique one-of-a-kind inventory number on it. You will receive your ornament gently packed between layers of tissue paper in a beautiful embossed gold box with care and handling instructions. With over 20 years of experience, we are expert at wire-wrapping each ornament to help protect it against accidental breakage (just like those smart Victorians). We take extra time and pains to meticulously back every scrap to cardstock and old-stock papers to protect these beautiful and fragile illustrations so they will last for generations to come.

Just Imagine, You are Viewing an Ornament made with Materials 60 to 150 Years Old! Dresden Star Ornaments are almost exclusively made with antique and vintage materials to include: glass ornaments from the 1890s to1950s (most of which were made in Germany); colorful Victorian embossed & die-cut paper “scraps” and chromolithographs from postcards and advertising trade cards (made in Europe between the 1870s and 1910); antique and vintage fabric to include chenille, lace, ribbon and metallic trims; antique and vintage tinsel from tree garlands and old-stock German-made Lametta tinsel; gold and silver old-stock Dresden paper trims, crepe paper, foil, gift wrap, spun-glass, and other embellishments.

Since many of our creations contain glass ornaments that are as much as 120 years old, the condition and patina will vary, which this is part of their vintage one-of-a-kind charm and character. Items described as “antique” are dated between the 1870s and 1920. Items described as “vintage” are dated between the 1920s and the 1950s (mid-century). We also use newer Dresden trims (on occasion) and crinkle wire (to wire-wrap ornaments for durability) made more recently in Germany using techniques and equipment that have not changed over the past 150 years.