"Prussian landwehr - cuff colours" Topic

I have a few Landwehr figures to paint. I consulted some sources – internet & books – on their simple uniform. I am confused.

Are the cuffs in provincial colours or simply in the plain, uniform blue? The sources are contradictory.

Knotel, Knotel & Sieg's "Uniforms of the World" (Arms and Armour Press 1980) says that the collar colour (which also appeared on the cap band) showed the province and that the colour of the shoulder straps showed the battalion, suggesting that the cuffs were the same dark blue as the coat.

I'm with John on this and Nash concurs--at least for enisted men wearing litewka--though I'm interested in who says otherwise and why.

That said, while the regulation was hatband and collar. I'm seeing enough old plates--even at least one Knoetel--to make me think cuffs in provincial colors happened sometimes, especially in Silesia. There's a plate or so positioned so you can't see the cuffs, too--the sure sign of an artist who either doesn't have information or doesn't trust it.

Here's one source that does indicate coloured cuffs:
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I didn't ask the question to reject, out of hand, answers to my question so I will happily go with dark blue cuffs & note that coloured cuffs *may* have occurred sometimes.

Without looking into it, I would suggest blue cuffs was probably regulation (or the cuff colour was not mentioned in the regulation) but that in practice some units did their own thing for a variety of reasons such as a manufacturer misunderstanding the regulation or shortages / surplus supplies of one colour of material.
I note in the Cent Jour that the unit the link goes to is the only regiment in litewka with coloured cuffs, albeit I did only skim through the first battalions and some regiments could not even provide every battalion with the same uniform, in these circumstances it's hardly surprising if some were not regulation.