Bavarian MVK Etuis question.

[padro]

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

[VtwinVince]

You mean the cases for the MVO? I have some Schiebe-Etuis for the MVK which are brown as well.

[1812 Overture]

Because red represents blood or honor?

[Bavaria]

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

[spolei]

Beautiful "Sargdeckel-Etui" Rudi
I don't know the reason why they change the color.
Regards Andreas