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Bigger clue = the address is listed. I doubt he'd put his addresscookie said:Okay this hat was named on the item as a S Casiraghi of Milan.
Anyone want to bet this hat was owned by the late Stefano Casiraghi - deceased husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco?
First clue = he was from Milan.
Or is that the hat shop?
Next clue = there is not a shop of that name listed on Google.
Final clue = Stefano Casiraghi was a multi-millionaire = Super Borsalino
on his hat. I doubt he lived in Milan's famous Galleria shopping mall.
It's the store from which it came. I guess more than one
person in Milan had that family name.
I don't think we have any guide to "Super", "Extra", "Superiore",
and the X designations for Borsalino hats. Further, I'd suggest
there was no cut and dry definition, just as you cannot rank
with any certainty Stetson's #1 Quality, 3X, Sovereign, and so on.
Even within decades, the quality, thickness, and other factors
varied for Royal Stetson. These hats come from a time before
lists of ingredients and performance metrics. They are clothes
items, not laptops.
That said, any Borsalino from before the 60s is a wonder.
And BinkieB, that's not decoupage- the boxes were printed that
way in that period.