Possible M43 SS Panzer Cap Italian Black Brigade

[Custer]

I'd like to share this cap with you, which recently came into my possession. It seems to be an M43 single button SS Panzer cap marked 'Habramag Brunn 1944' with the insignia of the Italian Black Brigade. The cap came to me via a German collector who obtained several Italian Fascist uniform items in Southern France some years ago. I know from my research that the Germans supplied quantities of M43 caps in black cloth to the Black Brigade in the Italian Social Republic in 1943-45. Some have been seen with the famous silver skull with dagger between teeth badge, and also this badge, the red Fascist bundle of sticks and axe. The cap is very worn and faded and shows no sign of having had SS insignia sewn to it, only the Italian badge. I'd be interested in what the forum members think, as it was not sold to me as an SS cap or even German-manufactured, just as an Italian Black Brigade ski cap (though the markings indicate manufacture in German-controlled Brno). And I didn't pay very much for it.