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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GaleriaGila, post: 107255, member: 993&quot;]People in my family have a long history of bird-keeping... passerines, parrots, pigeons.&nbsp; So I&#039;ve seen tons of cages.&nbsp; I&#039;m surprised I can&#039;t be more helpful, really... might be nice to have some close-ups of the hinges and perches... but here are my thoughts.</p><p>It could be decades old (kept in a dry environment) or five years old (and kept on the porch).&nbsp; Perches might tell us more.&nbsp; There are definitely some fabulously beautiful and valuable antique bird-cages.&nbsp; Some professionally made and some more folks-artsy.&nbsp; But yes, they have been widely counterfeited.&nbsp; If you shop at a Hobby Lobby today, you can find some enchanting cages that really beg you to believe they&#039;re a century old.&nbsp; Out west, it&#039;s flea-market-common to buy new, artisan-made &quot;primitive&quot; Mexican-style bird cages (made for ornamental purposes, mostly) and then painted, aged and sold as antique.&nbsp; 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. </p><p>Yeah, cages are crazy expensive, new.&nbsp; The last cage I bought my 30-year-old parrot was a good quality baked-enamel thing, costing 500 USD.&nbsp; If I win the lottery, I&#039;m gonna buy one of the gorgeous stainless steel parrot palaces, costing many thousands!</p><p>I love bird-related stuff, nology.&nbsp; It was fun looking at your find.</p><p>Oh, and... hola, and welcome to the Forums!</p><p>Gila[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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