re: hessian kriegsverdeinst medals usw.

[McCulloh]

looking at ricks' ribbon chart has got me rereading my hessenthal. Has anyone noted that the hessen war merit/bravery medals' ribbons faded out to almost white? I have 3 examples on bars and have seen another 2 and in all these cases the ribbons are either silvery white with reddish stripes or barely light blue.
The strangest thing is that I have a 4 piece bar (you saw it at Lowell Rick) with a True Armee cross/Franco-Prussian/KAiser Will. Centenial/hessen kreigsverdeinst (silvered war metal:1918 version) the latter being on a ribbon that's very white with two red stripes-nary a hint of blue anywhere, which makes me wonder. Anybody notice this phenomenon? Perhaps I have the wrong medal on the bar...(although it did come from Major Floyd) hmmmm.
Cheers,
JeMc

[Rick Research]

That seems almost universal with the pale blue color. The Mecklenburg war ribbons for the Schwerin FF Cross and the Strelitz CfDiW also fade away.

Green (as in the edges of the Bavarian Army Jubilee Medals) is another one that seems to be prone to fading out on ribbon bars, but oddly not when in full medal size.