Authenticate This Balenciaga

[Vlad]

IMPORTANT READ-ME

Please see post #1 for complete Balenciaga authentication rules. All requests must be posted in this thread. Authentications are not done via private message or in any other thread.

See the link below for examples of the photos needed and the format they should be in (clear, close up, forward-facing, no angles, right way up, no bends in tags).

https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/required-pics-for-balenciaga-authentication.741442/

A link to the listing in question is required.

It is an authenticator’s right to ignore a request that is not in the proper format. If the listing you are interested in is missing photos it is your responsibility to request them from the seller prior to posting in this thread.

Thanks and be well!

 

[4nn4]

Hang on and check my latest post!

I think I solved the mystery, peacebabe showed a photo of hers in 2018. She was an authenticator so hers would be legit.

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Wow you found it! Hers looks just like mine, the details I can see on this photo are exactly the same.

Never deleted a message (to the seller) so fast 😅

 

[muchstuff]

Wow you found it! Hers looks just like mine, the details I can see on this photo are exactly the same.

Never deleted a message (to the seller) so fast 😅

I'm betting there's a serial code somewhere in that bag. Maybe a long strip of leather in the seam? it wouldn't stick out much but you'd be able to feel it.

 

[Antonia]

I'm betting there's a serial code somewhere in that bag. Maybe a long strip of leather in the seam? it wouldn't stick out much but you'd be able to feel it.

Ok, now I need to see this, out of curiosity!!

 

[4nn4]

I'm betting there's a serial code somewhere in that bag. Maybe a long strip of leather in the seam? it wouldn't stick out much but you'd be able to feel it.

checked again but it's impossible to find, if it's there! not in the seams, pockets, checked every part of the leather where something could be printed 🤯

 

[muchstuff]

checked again but it's impossible to find, if it's there! not in the seams, pockets, checked every part of the leather where something could be printed 🤯

Weird but I think you’re OK.

 

[4nn4]

Weird but I think you’re OK.

Thanks!! I think so too after you posted the picture of peacebabes bag. I did find another Tube model (of which I'm not sure that it's authentic) online where the codes are on the bag of the leather brand tag. Maybe the one I have is a sample or something (I know they sometimes have the star for that)? Since there's also the white writing near the tag. Well...

 

[muchstuff]

Thanks!! I think so too after you posted the picture of peacebabes bag. I did find another Tube model (of which I'm not sure that it's authentic) online where the codes are on the bag of the leather brand tag. Maybe the one I have is a sample or something (I know they sometimes have the star for that)? Since there's also the white writing near the tag. Well...

Tough to say for sure.Enjoy your bag!

 

[Antonia]

checked again but it's impossible to find, if it's there! not in the seams, pockets, checked every part of the leather where something could be printed 🤯

I remember one time I was at a consignment store and there was a vintage LV damier ebene bag and the owner of the store said some vintage bags don't have serial numbers. Well, I wouldn't give up, I knew it was there somewhere and of all places at the top where the zipper was (on the underneath dk brown leather trim it was embossed there). And I looked everywhere else first but I was so happy to have found it! LOL!

 

[Deco]

Font's wrong, back of the zipper head is wrong...such a shame, it's a pretty colour.

And lovely leather. Too bad it's fake.

 

[Kiradris]

That's the closest, but I've never seen a Midday with RH, and the GH ones have a completely different serial #. I can't ID this with certainty.

The only visual match I got from Google image search is this old FP listing. Was a Step Bag actually a thing I wonder?

 

[muchstuff]

The only visual match I got from Google image search is this old FP listing. Was a Step Bag actually a thing I wonder?

It was.

 

[Deco]

The only visual match I got from Google image search is this old FP listing. Was a Step Bag actually a thing I wonder?

Interesting. That is an exact match for your bag, but that's not a Step. And yes, the Step was a thing. It came out way earlier than yours, in 2007, I believe, and I don't think they hung for more than a couple years, if that. Your bag is from 2016. I have no clue what it is.

This is a Step, btw. The top edges are sharp and stand up straight, without folding in on themselves. It has a perfectly flat bottom. And it has a different serial number.

 

[atlantis1982]

Interesting. That is an exact match for your bag, but that's not a Step. And yes, the Step was a thing. It came out way earlier than yours, in 2007, I believe, and I don't think they hung for more than a couple years, if that. Your bag is from 2016. I have no clue what it is.

This is a Step, btw. The top edges are sharp and stand up straight, without folding in on themselves. It has a perfectly flat bottom. And it has a different serial number.

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Is it because the bag @Kiradris posted is an outlet bag? Maybe they resurrected the Step at some later point for outlet duty?

 

[muchstuff]

Is it because the bag @Kiradris posted is an outlet bag? Maybe they resurrected the Step at some later point for outlet duty?

I think the outlet aspect is possible.

 

[Deco]

Is it because the bag @Kiradris posted is an outlet bag? Maybe they resurrected the Step at some later point for outlet duty?

It’s more like the Midday than the Step, in style details and size, though not exactly like either. You’re may be right that it’s just for the outlet. This is what it looks like straight on. Pretty big. This Jacinthe one is also an outlet bag. They rereleased the 2012 jacinthe for this outlet bag.