RETAIL & CURRENT VALUE PRICES ? ? ?

I concure.

Your best bet on finding out the original price on something is to run across the piece with the original price tag still intact. Granted that's not always easy because a lot of people have a weird obsession with geting price tags off. I use to to that myself for some reason or another but there are still pieces out there that were never in the hands of a compulsive price tag puller.

As for finding current values I always use eBay as a reference, just doing a search in past auctions to see what stuff has sold for.