Help with age of brass hendryx bird cage

I recently picked up this Hendryx bird cage. It measures right around 29" tall. The top hook is obviously incorrect and the wood base appears to have been cut for this at a later time. Can anyone help with the age and possible value of this piece? I've searched quite a bit but can't seem to find a similar cage of this size.

 

Valuable bird cages????
Who knew...

 

Yep - some of them sell quite well plus, have you priced new cages lately? Good one are pricey.

 

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Thanks!

 

I don't know but I do know there are some catalogs online. I have a Hendryx cage that's 1940s ish I think (found it one time but don't remember right now).

Anyhow, here is at least a one link to a catalog if you haven't seen it yet.

http://cdm16038.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p268001coll12/id/20002

 

People in my family have a long history of bird-keeping... passerines, parrots, pigeons. So I've seen tons of cages. I'm surprised I can't be more helpful, really... might be nice to have some close-ups of the hinges and perches... but here are my thoughts.
It could be decades old (kept in a dry environment) or five years old (and kept on the porch). Perches might tell us more. There are definitely some fabulously beautiful and valuable antique bird-cages. Some professionally made and some more folks-artsy. But yes, they have been widely counterfeited. If you shop at a Hobby Lobby today, you can find some enchanting cages that really beg you to believe they're a century old. Out west, it's flea-market-common to buy new, artisan-made "primitive" Mexican-style bird cages (made for ornamental purposes, mostly) and then painted, aged and sold as antique. It does occur to me that no bird-keeper I know of would want a wooden-bottom cage... messy and hard to sanitize... so that addition was surely ornamental, I would think.
Yeah, cages are crazy expensive, new. The last cage I bought my 30-year-old parrot was a good quality baked-enamel thing, costing 500 USD. If I win the lottery, I'm gonna buy one of the gorgeous stainless steel parrot palaces, costing many thousands!
I love bird-related stuff, nology. It was fun looking at your find.
Oh, and... hola, and welcome to the Forums!
Gila

 

If you win the power ball....u can buy your bird an island......

 

Heck, I'll buy everybody here an island, Professor! Where do you want yours?

 

next to yours...

 

Oh, you!
So let it be written, so let it be done!

 

Here's a few more detailed photos.

 

Hmmmmmm... I bet a key to dating it may be that tag...
Here's a site that concentrates on cages like yours. It offers free consultations, it seems.
http://hendryxhoarder.blogspot.com/

 

Thanks for the link. I'll defiitely check that out.

 

Didn't have to dig too far on that site. Found a post showing a photo of the catalog page with the exact cage. Looks like the wood base isn't original to the cage.

 

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