Question on Wilhelm II's personal epaulettes for the Garde du Korps

[kuerassier]

It's very simple. Uniforms with silver buttons – silver moons. Uniforms with gold buttons – gold moons.

It has nothing to do with rank, but with the regiment.

 

[Verbofaber]

It's very simple. Uniforms with silver buttons – silver moons. Uniforms with gold buttons – gold moons.

It has nothing to do with rank, but with the regiment.

Thank you very much—this completely and definitively puts the question to rest.

 

[Verbofaber]

No and no. Silver half moon, not gold. Silver field, not white. Black cuirass and yellow cuirass. No star on the field. Two stars before he became Feldmarschall and then two battons, crossed with W for his grandfather.
Same Epaulettes for Gardes du Corps and for the 1.Garde-Regiment zu Fuss.

Are the following elements in this photo the correct type for the Garde du Korps?

--the half moon in SILVER
--the W cypher in GOLD (I've also seen a W in a very wavy looped shape (very Art nouveau ish)
--the crossed batons in SILVER
--the Prussian crown in GOLD (I have seen crown sometimes not in the Prussian kingdom crown, but rather in the Imperial German flat-sided type)

--the button holding the epaulette should be silver colour?

Many thanks for the assistance.

 

[Verbofaber]

It's very simple. Uniforms with silver buttons – silver moons. Uniforms with gold buttons – gold moons.

It has nothing to do with rank, but with the regiment.

How can you explain this painting which has gold epaulette tops on silver fringe?

 

[Jvpi]

Simple, the postcard colouring is wrong.
These type of postcards cannot be considered as proper reference material.

The fringes not necessarily need to match the moon/button colour, they are always sliver except a few special cases.

 

[Verbofaber]

Simple, the postcard colouring is wrong.
These type of postcards cannot be considered as proper reference material.

Thank you, that sets that to rest, as I thought it was a proper painting. (The other examples were all colourized photos, which can be easily attributed to incorrect colourization.)