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I have my grandmother's pie bird. It is ceramic and black; very lovely. Both of my grandmother's were born in the 1800's; 1886 and 1892. 1886 lived with us and 1892 lived right across the street. 

The grandmother across the street decorated her entire home Victorian. To this day a home does not feel like a home to me without wallpapered walls. Our past house, that we had built in 1980, was completely wallpapered; every room with exception of the utility/laundry room in the basement. I loved that house and it felt like home. We had all the walls flat finished specifically for the wallpaper. 

The house we ,Iive in now, purchased in another town when we moved to be closer to our grandchildren, has all the walls painted. It still feels dull to me after living here 11 years. There is no wallpaper, but I still have my grandmother's china and her pie bird. Items my grandmother touched and used are more important than walls.

I wonder why pie birds fell out of favor?

I don't recall my mother ever using one.