Currently looking at Pirate Gold, Hoosiers Gold, and Memories. It still bothers me we can't ID this rose lol.
I know its not Golden Fantasie, Golden Sprite, Excitement, or Louise Weiss, but I don't think Goldite is off the table because nothing is known about it.
G. Yellow seems to be between all 3 major classes, which means its HT, GR, or FL possible. I include HT because the gold is so strong that it has a crayoning effect in places, which is known to happen in descendants of smaller-flowered florist HTs, as well as roses like Midas Touch (clearly its not MT tho).
Edit: Patent for Goldite seems to have sharp, formal form.
Edit 2: HCC to RHS Colour Chart descriptions for Hoosier Honey blooms in patent do not overlap in similar chart groupings (I own a RHS CC).
I wish there photos of all of the Golden Fantasie descendents.
The thing that strikes me about this rose, is that its not pure yellow in the photos. It has a honey gold tone, and it bleaches in random spots, but not altogether. That's a common trait in some Golden Wave descendents. Many of the seedlings from Selfridges x Freedom that I raised, for example, did this commonly. Especially if immature.
I went through all the black and white images in those patents that I could, and none of them resonated.
It is a strange rose. Seemingly healthy, dark colored, has heterogenous petals. I went through the Boerner yellows too, and one almost matched, but not quite.
