I understand that nothing will solve everything and we are dealing with a collectible that changes in EVERY capacity by the moment - rarity, value, color, demand, availability...

But when someone says this chip is "tan"... if I could know exactly (or close - LOL) what HE is calling "tan" (today - tomorrow he may be in a "beige" mood ... I don't care if I'd call it "tan" or not. AT LEAST I'd have some idea of what the chip looks like. (and yes - maybe "now"... but that is better than getting it and thinking, "HUH???? YOU CALLED THIS GREEN????? and they let you have a DRIVER'S LICENSE?? " (just kidding... no offense meant to anyone who is truly color-blind - honest)

Research is part of fun sometimes... and if someone says the chip is TAN (from a guide) THEN I get to decide "Ohhhh... it must be a dirty white one (if I know or see that there was a white issue when new)." but right now - there is SO much confusion and so many inconsistencies- especially in certain blocks of colors.

See -if my spouse (not married - wouldn't happen! LOL) brings home a new "chenille throw" in "teal" and throws it on the couch, hitting me in the head - I am likely to be immediately programmed into a perception that "this color" is "teal". Right or wrong - EVERYTHING I see after that moment in that color will be "teal" to me unless I discover otherwise.

FOR "BASIC" purposes, I am NOT suggesting 1800 shades of red - RED IS RED. LEAVE THAT ALONE. I'd suggest a "bar system" (maybe?). A Red Bar (or Pie - something with "variables) that includes ALL the shades we know and have grown to love... and happily accept and call "RED" with no disagreement. (EXCEPT for ADVANCED identification purposes - but that's for another time and post

Same with WHITE - BLUE - GREEN - YELLOW. To complicate BASICS (who'd WANT to???) or to discern between millions of deviations in contrast, hue, saturation - would be crazy (for GENERAL/ TYPICAL ID PURPOSES) would be like complicating peanut butter on sliced bread (I can DO THAT - trust me!

The most common problems - IMO - seem to stem in certain transitions from:

purple- lavender- fuchsia - maroon - red

white - off-white- cream - beige - tan - brown(even Sherman Williams doesn't care about these! JUST KIDDING!)

the "funny" BLUES - lt blue - aqua - turquoise

orange - peach

ALL colors are fickle - but these are the ones that nail me everytime usually - because for the most part - they are about PERSONAL INTERPRETATION.

NOW - you want to hear my opinions on "obsolete"? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Finally: there is no red dime in TCR for LVC. This chip - BY MY interpretation - making up MY OWN colors is a "cranberry with a hint of deep dusty rose" or maybe "the pinker side of maroon or burgundy." (like those?? )

This leaves several options: It's a new find. (But it isn't)

Is it the PURPLE dime... could be. But is the PURPLE in this particular chip "rosy" like this one? or is it more of the "Royalty-and-Welches-Grape-Juice Purple"?? No one has been able to provide me a scan of the PURPLE chip.

The TCR ALSO lists a fuchsia dime. Now - I can say this: this chip AIN'T Paul-son fuchsia! (from the paul-son samples) Does that mean it isn't "fuchsia"? No - it just isn't THAT "fuchsia.
Nor is it Paulson Purple. Not Paulson RED either.

See - I can't find anyone with EITHER chip - the purple or the fuchsia - so I can't rule out it being either by seeing the other to compare.
But if someone said, "I have the purple - it is the P12 color from such-n-such - THEN maybe I could think "yes - 40 years of fading and greasy hands... this is probably the same chip." OR I'd think "No way - impossible unless someone took out a marker and colored it or it was sitting in bleach for a decade."

Can you tell I feel strongly about this??
Thanks for your interest, ideas, concerns and thoughts on the matter.