A VINTAGE BLACK / BROWN CLOCHE STYLE MINK FUR HAT BY ANDRE 。This is a genuine vintage mink fur pillbox hat by André, the luxury export label of Canadian Hat Co. — one of Montreal\'s oldest continuously operating millinery houses. The company was founded in 1908 by brothers Samuel and Felix Leopold, Lithuanian immigrants who built it into a cornerstone of Canada\'s fur and hat trade. By the 1950s, Canadian Hat Co. was successful enough to launch the André label specifically for export to Europe — a level of quality control and craftsmanship serious enough to compete on the international stage during the golden age of fur fashion. Over a century later, the company is still operating in Montreal, making pieces like this a direct link to a genuinely rare, still-living lineage of North American fur craftsmanship. This particular hat is a rounded pillbox style in rich, dense mink with beautiful natural sheen — full pile, no thin spots, the kind of construction that made mid-century Canadian fur houses internationally respected.