Cast Iron Parrot Bird Bottle Opener

BOTTLE OPENER, that is an antique replica cast iron parrot on a stand. The opener measures 5 1/2 inches tall and is 2 1/4 inches at widest. The earliest known reference to a parrot in European literature is dated 397 B.C., and is found in Ctesia's work Indica in which the author provides a description of a plume headed parakeet. He describes a colorful bird that could speak an "Indian language".