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cootyhoot said:
I'm trying to determine the authenticity of this Burberry London duffle coat which I recently bought used on eBay for around $400. The seller claimed to be the original purchaser from a Burberry boutique, and had 100% feedback. Most of the details seem spot-on, the Rs look right, there's engraving on all buttons and toggles, check pattern is parallel, logo stitching is raised on the labels, etc. However, I wasn't able to find a serial number, just an order number (which is fading significantly and was found inside the left front pocket, along with the size tag). Did older coats not have the serial numbers that current ones do? I also noticed that on one of the toggles the engraved "Burberry" isn't really centered and almost falls off the toggle (all the others are well-centered), and that some of the parallel stitching has uneven gaps where the toggles are attached on the inside. I'm not sure if I'm scrutinizing too much or just enough. Thank you in advance for any help authenticating this coat.
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This coat is defiantly fake. The toggle is a dead giveaway.
 
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witchyj said:
Another pics. Thanks. :)
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Just so you know, Burberry often presents the same items year after year but to keep prices up, they might change a couple details. Here is the link for Burberry's current site, where you can find pretty much the same bag. The only difference is I believe this comes with a small porchette. I can assure you I have sold this bag in the past, it came in other colors as well.

https://us.burberry.com/the-small-canter-in-haymarket-check-p39198691
 
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cootyhoot said:
I'm trying to determine the authenticity of this Burberry London duffle coat which I recently bought used on eBay for around $400. The seller claimed to be the original purchaser from a Burberry boutique, and had 100% feedback. Most of the details seem spot-on, the Rs look right, there's engraving on all buttons and toggles, check pattern is parallel, logo stitching is raised on the labels, etc. However, I wasn't able to find a serial number, just an order number (which is fading significantly and was found inside the left front pocket, along with the size tag). Did older coats not have the serial numbers that current ones do? I also noticed that on one of the toggles the engraved "Burberry" isn't really centered and almost falls off the toggle (all the others are well-centered), and that some of the parallel stitching has uneven gaps where the toggles are attached on the inside. I'm not sure if I'm scrutinizing too much or just enough. Thank you in advance for any help authenticating this coat.
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Can I ask you what year the seller purchased the coat? There is a possibility that older coats had manufacturing problems like that one toggle, and if so, they may have sent it to an outlet. But my only question is, if it is just one toggle that has a problem, Burberry wouldn't have scraped the whole coat, they would have just replace the toggle...
 
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forever.elise said:
Can I ask you what year the seller purchased the coat? There is a possibility that older coats had manufacturing problems like that one toggle, and if so, they may have sent it to an outlet. But my only question is, if it is just one toggle that has a problem, Burberry wouldn't have scraped the whole coat, they would have just replace the toggle...
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They claim to have purchased it in 2006/2007 from a Burberry store in NYC. I've just asked if it was purchased from a boutique or an outlet. They said it was purchased at the Burberry Soho store, not an outlet, and that it was ordered from the store and shipped since they didn't have her size in-store. Everything from the posting seems genuine, along with the seller's responses, so I'm hoping it's genuine and the toggle is just something that got through quality control. Of course, better to know than to be naive.
 
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