Just left our 40 something annual bottle show here in Santa Rosa and was reading the posts about price guides . Having been in the antique bottle hobby for almost 50 years I have seen many many price guides.Most of which were worthless when they were made . I have contributed information to quite a few that also had the history behind the bottle . Myself and two others redid a book on Western applied top whiskeys that was an new edition when the author working on it passed . It took us the better part of two years to redo this book . Included in it was was the current value quide for the bottles .Not to long after it was printed the ecomomy took a dive and prices went with it . But if you compared prices of rare bottles with more common ones at the peak and then at the down turn , throw in some thoughts that the common one went down more the the rare ones you can figure out where the current value should be . But if you need a certain bottle and it comes up for sale you just have to pay what you are willing to. And like chips every once in awhile someone will dig a new find and increase the number of examples known bringing down the current value but in time they seem to rebound back even in a hobby like bottles where the amount of collectors is shrinking . I like to complete a group as close as I can and would pay 2-3 times tcr value if I could find them .And I have also paid market for some chips that have lost half there value .
Anyway ther are no pockets in a shroud.