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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
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  • Full clear and legible creed text and serial number
  • Made in tags (when available)
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  • 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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Item: VINTAGE COACH BLACK LEATHER PRAIRIE BAG, 9954
Listing number: 262524511354
Seller: vanvirgo
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-COA...511354?hash=item3d1fae247a:g:XtQAAOSwvg9XdQIR
Comments: creed F4D-9954...... is this bag from 1984 or 1994???
If authentic, the date code indicates 1994 but that bag isn't authentic. The font isn't correct for the plant.

Compare the creeds of vanvirgo's bag to another from the same year and plant. (It's a different month.)
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Authentic:

ETA: I found the following creed from the same month/year/plant and the font of the bag in question SHOULD have looked just like this image (a publicly available photobucket image):


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has the factory been know to stamp the creed out of order???? or is this just a bad bag??

http://www.shopgoodwill.com/auctions/9988-Coach-Crescent-Crossbody-Hobo-Saddle-Brown-31347682.html

Sometimes, but mostly in plants located outside the US. This one also, assuming 8 was supposed to be the year code, has a creed statement and "Made In" line that were discontinued around 1995, Neither S as a month OR plant code or A as a plant code would have been valid with these fonts, the font used in the creed statement is fake, the shape of the base is wrong, and I'm sure we'd find other problems if we had better photos. It's fake.
 
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Item: VINTAGE COACH BLACK LEATHER PRAIRIE BAG, 9954
Listing number: 262524511354
Seller: vanvirgo
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-COA...511354?hash=item3d1fae247a:g:XtQAAOSwvg9XdQIR
Comments: creed F4D-9954...... is this bag from 1984 or 1994???

If authentic, the date code indicates 1994 but that bag isn't authentic. The font isn't correct for the plant.

Compare the creeds of vanvirgo's bag to another from the same year and plant. (It's a different month.)
s-l1600.jpg


Authentic:

ETA: I found the following creed from the same month/year/plant and the font of the bag in question SHOULD have looked just like this image (a publicly available photobucket image):


s-l1600.jpg
DO NOT BUY FROM vanvirgo .

The seller sold this other fake too, also with an improper *4D creed:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-COACH-XTRA-LARGE-BLACK-LEATHER-BUCKET-PURSE-/262513066416?hash=item3d1eff81b0:g:~nkAAOSwMNxXaXL9&nma=true&si=HYccTfWv5OQJb%2BZqMZgbBqlf9VE%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

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Item: VINTAGE COACH BLACK LEATHER PRAIRIE BAG, 9954
Listing number: 262524511354
Seller: vanvirgo
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-COA...511354?hash=item3d1fae247a:g:XtQAAOSwvg9XdQIR
Comments: creed F4D-9954...... is this bag from 1984 or 1994???

Even if it was genuine instead of fake, it still wouldn't have been made in 1984. Please read the Salearea Coach Guides on Creeds and on Serial Numbers. Better yet, read them all.
http://www.ebay.com/gsr/i.html?uid="salearea"&rmvSB=true
 
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thanks for the photos.....great info

Even if it was genuine instead of fake, it still wouldn't have been made in 1984. Please read the Salearea Coach Guides on Creeds and on Serial Numbers. Better yet, read them all.
http://www.ebay.com/gsr/i.html?uid="salearea"&rmvSB=true

once again thank you for the info....i have the guides book marked and I do read them, but i want to make sure, since everytime I think i read them right I'm still wrong. :biggrin:
 
thanks for the photos.....great info



once again thank you for the info....i have the guides book marked and I do read them, but i want to make sure, since everytime I think i read them right I'm still wrong. :biggrin:

Don't feel bad, I have to go back and read them again myself every 2 or 3 months just to keep some of the information fresh in my head. There's no way anyone could ever remember it all.
 
Hi, I'm new to Coach and I love the bags. I have some in my possession but I hesitate about this one because of the damaged and slightly sloppy stitching in some places. Please kindly authenticate this one. Thankyou!

Item: Coach Mini Brooklyn Messenger

More pictures.. Sorry if it's too much I'm trying to capture every sides for better viewing. The stitching I pointed on the strap is the damaged one. And the other one is the sloppy stitching.
I don't see any problems with it.
 
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