Good info. I hear what you're saying. I've only been doing coke since 2000 so I really can't speak about anything before that but I have seen some coke so pearly and flakey it could have been jewelry. It would be hard for me to imagine coke could get much better than that but who knows.
if it is snow white, irridescent, slightly pink, pink veined, or, rarely blue veined then you have boutique. What you describe is certainly very good.
remember that the price of blow has gone down since the early 80's and so too the initial quality. Cartels are only interested in weight buy indeed they or their contractors will not move cut.
I got out of the trade a little after folks began laying their .45s and blocks on the tables as business was being conducted. Shortly thereafter we began to be aware of the original cartels.
my partner went to work for them, I left town forever. I recently reconnected with him after nearly 40 years. He is alive and not in jail but retired from a management position in the garbage collection field.
I have seen a huge variety af coke and was constantly amazed that a single chemical could take on all those forms and have such varied effects. I learned much later that there really are different alcoloids in clandestine coke that make the effects subtly different. There were reasons why Peruvian was prized over Bolivian.
but of it all. My fondest recollection was when we received several keys of dusty, dry off white fine dust. As we examined it, already disappointed, we found golfball sized lumps all through the powder. I pulled one out and began to scrape at it with the ever ubiquitous razor blade. I uncovered the most beautiful crystaline globe of translucent rock I have ever seen. Each of those dozen or so balls were like geodes, crusty unappealing coating covering a wonderoud interior.
needless to say, we kept the centers and needless to say it was some of the best we ever had, even if it was bolivian