padro Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 As a collector of MVK medals, and award documents, the reasons that the award cases changed from wood with metal attachments to all cardboard cases in 1917 seem obvious as everything became tighter for the Germans as the War dragged on. My question though is why did they change the colour of the award cases from blue to red? I would be interested to hear your thoughts. Regards Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtwinVince Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 You mean the cases for the MVO? I have some Schiebe-Etuis for the MVK which are brown as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1812 Overture Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 Because red represents blood or honor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavaria Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Deal all, actually the colour changed from red to blue and then back to blue: the early cases for the MVO and MVK had been in a dark red/wine red. See a case for an early MVO (Ritterkreuz 1. or 2. class) from A. Hausinger who produced only until 1876. Later types, also pre-1914, had been blue and changed during WW1 to red. No idea why they changed the colours, at least the motivation to go with blue might be that it´s a national colour for Bavaria "Weiss-Blau". Kind regards Rudi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spolei Posted February 3, 2023 Share Posted February 3, 2023 Beautiful "Sargdeckel-Etui" Rudi I don't know the reason why they change the color. Regards Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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