I call BS! If this ugly heated up C&B color was the long lost 1964 "Puke Yellow-Green" kettle that nobody ever bought back in the day and there were only three known examples, everybody would be fighting for them and calling them pretty! Or maybe it just takes a kettle 40-50 years to really hit their prime.
That's funny right there.
I find it strange that a kettle color that is so cool gets ugly when it's hot. BTW - The range of ugly with this one must be according to how hot it gets. When I'm doing a normal cook it just gets duller, not real appetizing, but not butt ugly. But that pic was taken when the therm. was buried.