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I'm still a firm supporter of the idea that the more written on the label the earlier the hat, with the separate size sticker as an intermediate solution before everything was printed or stamped on the label.
First, that old misto homburg is a stunner!
It seems that hand written notation shows up now and again, earlier and later, too... this around 1960, I believe: