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Please post authenticity questions related to COACH in this thread. No PMs please.
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BASIC PICTURES REQUIRED (but more may be requested): If necessary pictures are in the listing, it's not necessary to upload and duplicate them.
  • Front of item
  • Back of item
  • Full clear and legible creed text and serial number
  • Made in tags (when available)
  • Measurements
  • For bags with turnlock closures, show pictures of back of female side of turnlock
  • For bags with magnetic snaps, show pictures of the male part of the snap so that the numbers and letters on it can be read
  • If applicable, search interior of bag and/or pockets for small white tag with production information and include a picture of that.
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BeenBurned said:
Before asking about a specific bag, I'd like to ask whether anyone has ever seen an N plant code for China. (I don't see any issues with the bag it's on.) I don't recall having seen it before.
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Here's one in a Swingpack from February 2006 but the pics could be better. It was used for a short time before Coach switched to the 2-number codes sometime around mid-2006. There are 3 other 2006 N codes listed and they all look ok, so do the half dozen 2005 Ns I've found.

ETA - the N code was also used very briefly in US bags, mostly Willises, in 1994, before the Mexico plant opened.

Many of those letter codes between G and N seem to have gotten switched around between different plants.
 

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#1,506
BeenBurned said:
Before asking about a specific bag, I'd like to ask whether anyone has ever seen an N plant code for China. (I don't see any issues with the bag it's on.) I don't recall having seen it before.
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Hyacinth said:
Here's one in a Swingpack from February 2006 but the pics could be better. It was used for a short time before Coach switched to the 2-number codes sometime around mid-2006. There are 3 other 2006 N codes listed and they all look ok, so do the half dozen 2005 Ns I've found.

ETA - the N code was also used very briefly in US bags, mostly Willises, in 1994, before the Mexico plant opened.

Many of those letter codes between G and N seem to have gotten switched around between different plants.
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Thanks. The bag I was looking at (not to buy - too small) is a signature demi (from 2005) and although there have been "good" fakes, I didn't believe this to be fake at all.

I'd be very surprised if this bag were fake.

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#1,507
Flushpuppy said:
Thanks to both of you. I'm wondering if you notice what look like a few nicks in the straps, for instance in between the buckle? I asked about it but the seller said there weren't any. Maybe just my monitor.
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It looks like there's at least one. And that could be why the seller showed a close-up of that part of the strap - if someone complained after receiving it she could just say that the flaw was shown in the photos so it was technically disclosed in the listing. It sure doesn't look like a seam in the piping since that's not a place where Coach would put that kind of seam.
 

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#1,508
BeenBurned said:
Thanks. The bag I was looking at (not to buy - too small) is a signature demi (from 2005) and although there have been "good" fakes, I didn't believe this to be fake at all.

I'd be very surprised if this bag were fake.

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So would I, the creed matches the other Currents and Completeds styles I found using Advanced Search "Coach 05N" and "Coach 06N". No evidence of any made in 2004 though, so that code was probably only used for a China plant for about a year.

So are you battening down for the next storm? Hope your electric power and your snowblower keep working!
 
#1,509
Hyacinth said:
So are you battening down for the next storm? Hope your electric power and your snowblower keep working!
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Ugh! Yeah, when is enough enough? Personally, I don't care about previous snowfalls and temps in history and getting into the Guinness Book of All Time Records!

We've been lucky though. We haven't lost power at all this winter yet.
 
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Hyacinth said:
It looks like there's at least one. And that could be why the seller showed a close-up of that part of the strap - if someone complained after receiving it she could just say that the flaw was shown in the photos so it was technically disclosed in the listing. It sure doesn't look like a seam in the piping since that's not a place where Coach would put that kind of seam.
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Thanks - that's what I was thinking too. Doesn't seem right.
 
#1,511
Hyacinth said:
No, it's fake. The buckles are brass but the strap grommets are silver, the font of the creed isn't right, and it has a date code for October 1994 but that style wasn't even introduced until Spring 1997.
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Shoot, I went to look at it again so I could know what to look for next time, and it's not there anymore. Hope no one bought it.
 
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