I imagined…the vendor might have said one thing in their product presentation meeting (champagne, light golden, yellow..whatever), but the translation to the "On Air" presentation, then adding in the show-hosts lack of pearl knowledge... misinformation gets spread to an even wider audience (intentional or not…same result misinformation). Then when you consider a "GSSP" might be dyed it gets even trickier (disclosure issues come to mind) how many novices even think about this? When is documentation important…at a few hundred dollars, a few thousand?
My thoughts begin to wander to how close does a dye job get to the best in class natural color GSSP, and does the preponderance of dyed "GGSP" give an unrealistic expectation of the actual GSSP quantity in the market (this answer is obvious if dyed is the new norm). What does all of that do for the natural color YSSP, they are not as "industry" appreciated, but are truly natural color. This reminds me of the brown diamond's road to "fancy color", in times past they were so unappreciated, now diamonds are irradiated to get a constant fancy brown color to meet demand for "chocolate" diamonds. I'll be curious to see where the road takes natural color YSSP in the future. *Side note, imo the lighter yellow and YSSP pearls look particularly striking in combos with lighter/pink CFWP and WSSP, so I know they will always have a market that appreciates them.
My ramble over, this thread is indeed valuable, thanks to the OP and the experts for the examples and insight, and those that "bumped" it. Another tool in my arsenal of learning (and unlearning lol).
