We found Avon perfume and cologne bottles, with the perfume and cologne still in the bottles, shaped like birds, trains, elephants, etc. Some of them are 40 to 50 years old. There are no boxes.

A: Avon bottles are fairly plentiful. Originally called the California Perfume Company, bottles issued during that period, or before 1939, are especially collectible.

Avon produced its first novelty containers in the 1960s, with bottles shaped like animals or objects. As best as we can tell, this Christmas tree bottle was made in the 1970s.