He had a beautiful little sixpence cap

The quotation is from Marianne Recalls Meeting Leonard Cohen, and  while I don't pretend to know if this is the same sixpence cap Leonard Cohen was wearing when he and Marianne met for the first time, it will surely suffice as a prop for the theater of imagination.

It's a case of If the cap fits (the quotation), use it.

Photo found at NRK promotional page for the radio documentary "So long Marianne, a program for and with Leonard Cohen's Norwegian mouse."

MARIANNE: I never felt that I looked like much at all. I didn't believe it when Leonard said ”you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen”. And he has continued saying that. But what I mean is that... I think I had too round a face. So I have gone round looking down all my life. But after all I did have… you know the sun bleached my hair, and after all you were … in Greece you were so blonde, so blonde, so blonde, because there they were mostly dark. Skinny. Almost no boobs. laughs To my great regret. 

NARRATOR: Leonard then, what did he look like?

MARIANNE: Oh, he was beautiful! Haven't you seen pictures of Leonard when he was young? Oh yes, you have. He was marvellous. Neither did he think that he looked like much. We both had problems. You have no idea. We often stood in front of the mirror before going out and wondered who we were today and stuff like that. Oh god, how strange we human beings are, you know...

Marianne Ihlen, from an interview with  Kari Hesthamar, Norway, 2005. Transcript found at LeonardCohenFiles. 

Credit Due Department: Top photo is from "So Long Marianne" by Kari Hesthamar. Second photo is from Life magazine archives.

The spontaneity and beauty of Marianne are apparent despite the low quality of these images (all screen captures from Harry Rasky's Song Of Leonard Cohen).

My house [in Hydra] looked beautiful, and it looks exactly the same as it always did. It doesn’t have a great view. It’s a big house full of little rooms. Rooms about half the size of this kitchen. And just with old tables and chairs that people gave me, most things in that house were given to me by people who were moving up and could afford a better table, like the Johnsons, gave me the kitchen table because they made a little money and they bought a better table. And that’s what we would do for the new generations coming in. At first all my pots and pans were second generation, you know, and then you made a little money and you could buy your own pot and pan and you’d give your pot and pan to the next kid who was moving in. At that stage when I was living with Marianne, we didn’t have any money… Well, Axel had made a little money, so there were some things from his house that found their way into my house.

From Leonard Looks Back On The Past, an interview with Leonard Cohen by Kari Hesthamar, Los Angeles, 2005 (Unedited interview for the Norwegian Radio). Found at LeonardCohenFiles.

Marianne Jensen (middle), Leonard Cohen (right) on Hydra.