Authenticate This COACH - **see first post for format**

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IMPORTANT READ-ME

Please post authenticity questions related to COACH in this thread. No PMs please.
For further information, please refer to the first post on page 1 of this thread.

Please follow the following requests:
  • Before you submit a request for authentication, please search this thread to make sure that the item has not previously been authenticated by searching the seller ID and/or item number. This is not a thread to ask general questions about COACH, please refer to our main Coach forum for such information.
  • Note that authenticators have the right to refuse any requests. This is a free service, but it is imperative that you help our authenticators by using the following format:
  • FOR ITEMS LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Listing number:
    Seller and site where listed
    Link:
    Comments:

  • FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Where purchased or how obtained
    Comments:
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.
Thank you and be safe!
 
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Hyacinth said:
Fake, for all those reasons. The binding around the bottom isn't right either.

That seller " LADYDIEP " has been reported before. Not only has she listed fakes, but in a listing back in January she claimed to be a "proud TPF member". Now that claim isn't mentioned any more, and she still hasn't learned to authenticate before listing! Let's just say her credibility is shaky and I would NOT recommend buying from her.

There are posts spread over several pages starting here:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/authenticate-this-coach.889527/page-1298#post-30968103

BeenBurned posted :
seller: ladydiep
seller says she is a member of tpf. I don't understand how buying items at estate sales ensures their authenticity."

If she was ever an active member of tPF and read these forums she would never have made such a ridiculous claim - if she was being honest, of course.
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She is still claiming to be "a proud member" in the description for item 161972902772 on ebay, active listing right now.
 
#23,674
Purse_Addiction said:
Please authenticate
Item: Station bag
Listing number: 192240240150
Seller: joe_of_the_rock
Link: www.ebay.com/itm/192240240150
Comments: creed shows 9145 as the model instead of 5130
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No it doesn't. That's not the style number. Please read and save the six Salearea Coacxh Guides posted at Ebay especially the ones explaining Creeds and Serial Numbers.
http://www.ebay.com/gsr/i.html?uid="salearea"&rmvSB=true

The Station Bag is genuine, from the late 1980s.
 
#23,675
Purse_Addiction said:
One more for tonight, please authenticate
Item: Madison bag, made in Italy #4410
Listing number: 112449136932
Seller: kcdesignerdepot
Link: www.ebay.com/itm/112449136932
Comments: Going by the creed (K6E-4410), made in 1996? Seems awfully new looking for such an old bag, but seller says "only carried once."
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Your link brings up the listing in your previous post.

This is the bag in question:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CARRIED-ONC...136932?hash=item1a2e7da924:g:QScAAOSwXXxZSGK6

It's authentic.
 
#23,678
Purse_Addiction said:
One more for tonight, please authenticate
Item: Madison bag, made in Italy #4410
Listing number: 112449136932
Seller: kcdesignerdepot
Link: www.ebay.com/itm/112449136932
Comments: Going by the creed (K6E-4410), made in 1996? Seems awfully new looking for such an old bag, but seller says "only carried once."
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Well, it's not the kind of bag that most women would carry every day, is it? Don't be too concerned or think a bag is questionable because it doesn't show much wear. Unlike today when everything is disposable, or in the case of designer handbags is out of style and something no self-anointed Fashionista would be caught dead carrying once the style disappeared from all the fashion blogs, twenty or thirty years ago a Coach bag was often considered an investment or a special occasion bag since you didn't see them dangling from the arms or shoulders of half the women in the mall - or worse yet, Walmart. That Madison Sutton Satchel that originally cost $324 back in 1996 would retail based just on inflation for over $500 today, and you can probably almost double that if you factor in the cost of materials ( almost the same kind of caviar-type leather that Chanel uses) and the cost of making it in Italy by actual Italian craftspeople instead of in China. There aren't a lot of women today other than us purse-obsessed tPF members who would have been able to justify or even afford to be carrying a bag that had cost them at least $800 in real-time money as an everyday, go-grocery-shopping or wait-in-the-pouring-rain-for-the-bus handbag.

A surprising number of us here at tPF have been lucky enough to find "brand-new" classic and vintage Coaches with the original tags and paperwork and sometimes even the box, because some people who bought them or got them as gifts just tucked them away unused in a closet for that special occasion that never came. A barely-used classic pre-China Coach isn't so rare that someone should worry about it based JUST on its newness. Styles made after 2000 with original tags and paperwork are another story - those need to be looked at carefully. Almost all Chinese or third-world fakes of post-2000 styles came with fake paperwork, tags, dustbags, and even receipts, sometimes even more than the genuine ones. And not just for handbags either, but for shoes, scarves, wallets, keychains, clothing, and anything else they could fake.
 
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#23,680
BeenBurned said:
It looks fine. I assume that the seller didn't know that the chain is a replacement though if she did, it should have been disclosed. (ETA: She described the chain but not as a replacement.) Here's a picture:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/post-your-coach-jewelry-watches-here.265647/#post-6503994
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Hyacinth said:
It matches the picture in the May 2008 catalog, but that doesn't prove it's genuine - wait for BeenBurned, maybe she has one for comparison. Original retail "at select stores" was $148, and it came with a gold-colored hangtag. There's no other description and it's not a Pierre Le Tan...
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My new to me (not Pierre Le Tan) Angel Fish Pendant came and it is in perfect condition! The cheap substitute chain that came with it was as flimsy as anticipated and I've thrown it away. I've put it on the proper chain and it looks great, you can see the pics at the link below. Thanks again, Ladies!

https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...-ebay-listing-wanna-see-what-i-caught.968728/
 
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Hi! Would like to once again ask for assistance in authenticating this coach bag. This was "turned over" to me by a friend since she knows i'm starting to collect vintage bags.

Item: Coach crossbody bag style 9966

Thank you!
 

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#23,684
Hi! Would like to once again ask for assistance in authenticating this coach bag. This was "turned over" to me by a friend since she knows i'm starting to collect vintage bags.

Item: Coach crossbody bag style 9966

Thank you!
 
#23,685
Hi! Would like to once again ask for assistance in authenticating this coach bag. This was "turned over" to me by a friend since she knows i'm starting to collect vintage bags.

Item: Coach crossbody bag style 9966

Thank you!
 
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