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I'm trying to nail down the hat's age a little by looking into the importer. View attachment 48468
Keeping in mind that Borsalino imports into the U.S. trickled to halt around 1940 and didn't resume until the factory was restored after the end of WWII, virtually all the hats we see with the Borsalino imprint on the left side of the manufacturing label are c.1950 - with a window of a few years on either side and mostly on the north (more recent) side. Every once in a while a pre-war era hat shows up. As Steve mentions above, the style sometimes is a clue but not always. A manufacturing label like the one below from Steve's website with its separate size sticker is one of the few clues that can help to identify an earlier hat.
The color translation is correct. The style is Ludoela. Tommy's hat above shows a different name that appears for this style - Ta'Ludora.