What colors could my cat's father have been?

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He's a black smoke DSH and his siblings were as follows: a black smoke, a high white black smoke & white(best way I could describe her), a black smoke/white, and unknown(foster mom kept this one). The mom was a black & white cat but it's possible her black coloration was black smoke(I only saw pictures). A cat believed to possibly be her sister(dumped with her, also pregnant) was an interesting looking black smoke(might be considered a blue smoke? Torti smoke? She appeared to have a torti pattern but in all grey; no cream or red coloration).
 
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So the colors are essentially all from momma.   Dads colors cant have been very dominant.  I guess on a tuxedo or a blackie... Both are common enough.

Re the suspected diluted tortie aunt - but without no creme - it doesnt to be much, a creme spot, even some hairs somewhere...  If she looks alike a tortie, she probably is.
 
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I'll try and find the pictures I have of the aunt when I'm on my laptop. She was an interesting looking cat and I'm curious as to how her coloration could be described. It really didn't look like a dilute torti at all, from my memory. Just appeared to have a similar pattern as a tori but with black smoke coloration?
 
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OceanBreathes said:
"Smoke," is a pattern type; in "Smoke," the roots of the hairs are white, not grey as they would be in most cats, and aren't agouti hairs; the pattern is the action of shading perceived against a solid (non-agouti) coat (i.e. each hair is coloured well below the place where the agouti band would appear), and hence, a black smoke cat is actually a black cat, and a blue smoke cat is a solid grey - both with white roots. "Smoke," is dominant, and hence cannot 'skip' a generation.  Smokes are actually the solid version of silver tabbies, and a non-silver tabby must have at least one parent that is either a shaded coat or a tabby.  A silver tabby must have at least one silver tabby, shaded or smoke parent.

The cat in your avatar is an Xb inheritor, so his Father - assuming the Mother to have been, as you've stated, a black and white bicolour - was a silver tabby with a smoke pattern, owed to the fact that "Smoke" isn't recessive.

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