Italian makers trademarks

[Daniele Tanto]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/KgSt1XWEVyVp5tyN9
Take note where the hat factories were in the Biella area.
Barbisio, Cappellificio Cervo, Grosso Valz and others within a two kilometer radius

 

[steur]

Trademarks in the flesh. Printing examples for liners of Barbisio trademarks. Not mine but currently on Ebay.

 

[steur]

John Valtz

Steve's @mayserwegener find of a John Valtz hat had me looking into Grosso Valtz and especially John Valtz again for trademarks. It turns out John Valtz had his own trademarks. Here they are in chronological order.

1928

1929

I believe the Valtz hat owned by Daniele @Daniele Tanto is an Osiris branded one (below).

1933

 

[steur]

John Valtz II

All are renewals of earlier trademarks.

1943

 

[mayserwegener]

Stefan, Great patent info! I also found separate listings of Grosso Valtz and John Valtz going back to this time period.

 

[steur]

This week a hat turned up that has been made by Gerardo Riva of Monza (I have yet to take pictures). This had me looking into Riva as a maker. Well, he was. The (registered) trademarks with the names "Rival" and "Delione" start in 1938, with a renewal in 1947. The same brand names pop up in 1960 in the line-up of Cerizza, so it looks like they took over from Riva around that time.