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petecldThis last one on ebay sold for a really high price and I'm not sure why. There is a price guide for glass bottles and the listing gives these a $20-25 value. They usually sell for $10-15 on ebay and come up relatively steadily.
I own 4 different Croft's Cocoa bottles without labels. I have 2 different styles of bottle and 2 different colors of glass. I do own one bottle with a label and found it on ebay about 2 years ago. It was the first one I had ever seen with a label. Another appeared on ebay and the Mastronet offering is the same one. I too was disappointed when the card wouldn't fit in the top. Mine even has some old dried up cocoa powder left in it.
The guy I purchased mine from told me he found a wood case with no advertising on it that was 1/2 full with Croft's Cocoa bottles, all with labels, but only 3 bottles weren't broken. He said the wood crate would have held 25 bottles. Since there was no advetising on the crate he couldn't say 100% if it was a Croft's Cocoa shipping crate or not. He also said he was keeping one, I bought another, but I don't know if the Mastro bottle was the third example from this gentleman or not.
Going on memory here - the mastro one sold in the $400 area - I think - don't hold me to that.