Avon Four Seasons Porcelain Egg: "Every Spring Brings a New Beginning" Robin
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The robin egg that opens Avon's 1984 bird series
The Avon Four Seasons robin egg is a white porcelain egg printed with an American robin leaning down to feed three chicks in a nest, among pink flowers and spring greenery, with "Every Spring Brings a New Beginning" in gold script on the back. It is the spring egg of the Avon Four Seasons Porcelain Egg Series, and its box calls it "Spring · A New Beginning." The series boxes are dated © 1984.
The series has four eggs, each with a different pair or family of songbirds and a gold line on the back: Spring: A New Beginning with robins, Summer's Song with bluebirds among raspberries ("Summer's Song Is Warm and Bright"), Autumn's Magic Changes with orioles in oak leaves and acorns ("Autumn Brings Magic Changes"), and Winter's Bold Beauty with cardinals. The summer box calls its egg "second in a series of four collectibles that celebrate the joy and natural beauty of the seasons," and says "bluebirds in a lush green aerie sing the praises of high summertime." Full sets of four, still boxed with their stands, turn up often.
Avon didn't make the eggs. The boxes read "Created in Japan exclusively for Avon Products, Inc., Distr. © 1984 — All rights reserved," and no factory is named on the egg or box. Avon began in 1886 as David H. McConnell's door-to-door perfume business in New York, called the California Perfume Company until 1939, and in the 1980s it sold porcelain plates, figurines and eggs through its representatives' brochures under a "Source of Fine Collectibles" mark. Avon's 1984 issue price for the eggs couldn't be found.
The egg came boxed with a round, turned wood stand in a walnut-brown finish, both held in a fitted foam insert. The spring box is pale yellow-green with painted pink and violet flowers on the sides and the series title in green script on the end, over "Spring · A New Beginning." Three years later Avon issued a second set of four seasonal eggs, the Gifts of Nature Porcelain Egg Collection (1987–88), with flowers instead of birds; sellers mix up the two names, and some list this robin egg as "Gifts of Nature."
This copy is the egg alone, without its stand or box. Its bottom has the black Source of Fine Avon Collectibles stamp with no year, the same as other spring eggs photographed by sellers, so the stamp alone won't date it; the 1984 date comes from the box.
Which Avon seasons egg is it?
The four 1984 bird eggs share one shape, stamp and box style. The birds and the back script tell them apart, and the stamp tells them from Avon's later flower eggs. From this copy, boxed sets and listing photos, checked October 29, 2026.
| Version | Bottom stamp | Tells | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring: A New Beginning, 1984 This egg | Black Source of Fine Avon Collectibles ring, no year | Robin feeding three chicks in a nest, pink flowers; back "Every Spring Brings a New Beginning" | About 3 in. |
| Summer's Song, 1984 Four Seasons | Same, no year | Two bluebirds with raspberries and leaves; back "Summer's Song Is Warm and Bright" | About 3 in. |
| Autumn's Magic Changes, 1984 Four Seasons | Same, no year | Orange and black orioles in oak leaves and acorns; back "Autumn Brings Magic Changes" | About 3 in. |
| Winter's Bold Beauty, 1984 Four Seasons | Same, no year | Cardinals | About 3 in. |
| Gifts of Nature, 1987–88 Later series | Green ring dated 1987 or 1988 | Flowers only, no birds; signed E. Hoffmann; green striped box | About 3–3½ in. |
- The undated stamp is normal. Four Seasons eggs carry only "Source of Fine Avon Collectibles" with no year; the © 1984 is printed on the box.
- No artist's name. The spring egg has no signature anywhere on the decoration, on this copy or on seller photos, unlike the 1987–88 Gifts of Nature eggs signed E. Hoffmann.
- Box colors match the season. The spring and summer boxes are pale yellow-green with green script; the autumn box is cream with red-brown script and fall leaves.
- A small vent hole. Every copy checked has a round hole beside the stamp, so a hole isn't damage.
A white egg with a robin family, pink flowers and gold script
The Avon Four Seasons spring egg is a hollow, glossy white porcelain egg about 3 inches tall, with a slightly flattened base so it stands upright. The front scene shows an American robin perched on a brown twig, its back and wings brown with darker feather edges, its breast orange (bright orange shading to yellow), a white eye ring and a yellow beak, leaning down to a woven straw nest where three brown-capped chicks gape upward. Around them are pink flowers with five rounded petals and green centers, smaller pink and violet blossoms on thin stems, broad green leaves and tall blades of grass.
The scene wraps from the front around toward the sides; the back is plain white with four lines of slanted gold script: "Every Spring / Brings / a New / Beginning," with large looping capitals. The bottom has a small recessed circle with a black circular stamp and a round vent hole beside it. There's no artist's signature on the decoration.
- Front: robin on a twig feeding three chicks in a straw nest, with pink flowers, violets, leaves and grass.
- Sides: flowers and leaves trail around both sides, thinning out toward the back.
- Back: "Every Spring Brings a New Beginning" in gold script on four lines.
- Bottom: glazed white with a shallow recessed center; black circular stamp reading "Source of Fine / Avon / Collectibles"; no year; one small round vent hole.
- Stand (when present): round turned wood cup in a walnut-brown finish.
- This copy: no stand or box. A faint tan grime ring circles the bottom, and the gold script and print look bright and complete. No chips or cracks show in the photos.
Back: Every Spring / Brings / a New / Beginning Bottom stamp (black, around the edge and center): SOURCE OF FINE / AVON / COLLECTIBLES Box end panel: Avon / Four Seasons / Porcelain / Egg Series / SPRING • A NEW BEGINNING Series box back (summer egg): … CREATED IN JAPAN / EXCLUSIVELY FOR / AVON PRODUCTS, INC., DISTR. / © 1984 — ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDThe egg is read from this copy. The box text is read from boxed copies listed on eBay, since this copy has no box.
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Copies for sale right now
A pick from about 20 live eBay listings that include the spring robin egg (6 single eggs, the rest in sets or lots of the series), checked October 29, 2026. Asking prices, not sales. eBay's sold prices need a sign-in, so they aren't here yet; one ended single-egg listing closed at $5.99.
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What year is the Avon Four Seasons robin egg?
1984. The egg's own stamp has no year, but the series boxes read "Created in Japan exclusively for Avon Products, Inc., Distr. © 1984."
What are the four eggs in the Avon Four Seasons series?
Spring: A New Beginning (robins), Summer's Song (bluebirds among raspberries), Autumn's Magic Changes (orioles with oak leaves and acorns) and Winter's Bold Beauty (cardinals). Each has a gold script line on the back.
Where were the Avon Four Seasons eggs made?
In Japan, according to the box. The factory isn't named on the egg or the box.
Did it come with a stand?
Yes. Each egg came in a foam insert with a round turned wood stand, in a box titled "Avon Four Seasons Porcelain Egg Series" with the egg's name under it, here "Spring · A New Beginning".
How big is the Avon robin egg?
About 3 inches tall, and about 4 inches standing in its wood stand, going by sellers' tape-measure photos.
What is the Avon Four Seasons spring egg worth?
Single spring eggs asked $4.40 to $19.99 on eBay on October 29, 2026, and full boxed sets of four asked $18 to $40. These are asking prices, not sales; an ended single egg listing closed at $5.99.
- Owner's photos of this copy, including the back script and the bottom stamp
- eBay: boxed spring egg, for the box title "Spring · A New Beginning," the floral box, foam insert and wood stand
- eBay: boxed summer and autumn eggs, for the box back text (second in a series of four, bluebirds, Created in Japan, © 1984), the autumn box, both egg backs and the egg height on the stand
- eBay: spring egg with stand, for a second undated black bottom stamp, the stand and the height
- eBay: ended spring egg listing, closed at $5.99
- eBay search for "avon four seasons porcelain egg", for the four egg names, the birds sellers give them, and the listings and asking prices on October 29, 2026
- CollectionHero: Avon Four Season porcelain eggs, for the four 1984 titles and the wood stands, from collected listings
- eBay: boxed Gifts of Nature egg, for the later 1987 series, its box and its dated green stamp
- Wikipedia: Avon Products, for the 1886 founding by David H. McConnell and the 1939 change from California Perfume Company