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I can''t believe that there isn''t a decent line-up of diamond color grades anywhere on Pricescope YET!
Yes, we have that D versus I picture and several long threads showing various color grades ONE BY ONE. Of course, it is common knowledge that diamonds are particularly good at picking up any color in the surrounding lighting or objects, so the same J color may look white-blue in one picture and fancy yellow in the next. This post is a provocation for a charitable soul to post the much needed graphical reference for future Pricescope debates about "HOW DIFFERENT COLOR GRADES ARE". Of course color grades represent some range of shades, but is there any way one can get a reasonable impression of what exactly he will pay for online? We have the HCA and all those Scopes to debate cut quality, 30X pictures to show clarity to the most worrisome layman, the cost and carat weight are easily written down, but how about color?
I know that demanding an electronic version of the GIA color reference sets is way too optimistic, but a few short years ago cut was in the same boat. How about Color?
Yes, we have that D versus I picture and several long threads showing various color grades ONE BY ONE. Of course, it is common knowledge that diamonds are particularly good at picking up any color in the surrounding lighting or objects, so the same J color may look white-blue in one picture and fancy yellow in the next. This post is a provocation for a charitable soul to post the much needed graphical reference for future Pricescope debates about "HOW DIFFERENT COLOR GRADES ARE". Of course color grades represent some range of shades, but is there any way one can get a reasonable impression of what exactly he will pay for online? We have the HCA and all those Scopes to debate cut quality, 30X pictures to show clarity to the most worrisome layman, the cost and carat weight are easily written down, but how about color?
I know that demanding an electronic version of the GIA color reference sets is way too optimistic, but a few short years ago cut was in the same boat. How about Color?