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

[Vlad]

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!

 

[BeenBurned]

Just got it this morning! Return item for a full refund!
Now I asked for a return label. Waiting to hear.

If you filed SNAD, you should get the label and the funds would come from the seller's account.

ETA: BTW, you might want to add an update to the feedback you left that indicates the item turned out to be fake. That way, if she tries to relist, the next buyer might read the feedback and hit the back button.

 

[Hyacinth]

Item: 9977 Manor Bag
Listing number: eBay item number:142490754137
Seller: pajjr-half
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-COA...754137?hash=item212d1c5c59:g:7XIAAOSwxh1Zpa8f

Just saw that this post went up on ebay and I would really appreciate it if someone could verify it. Thank you again for any help!

Genuine, made in 1995

 

[Couturexec]

If you filed SNAD, you should get the label and the funds would come from the seller's account.

ETA: BTW, you might want to add an update to the feedback you left that indicates the item turned out to be fake. That way, if she tries to relist, the next buyer might read the feedback and hit the back button.

I'll try to figure out the SNAD tonight. It lead me to "try to work things out with the seller first". I probably did the wrong thing.
I didn't know I could adjust the feedback! Thanks for that tip. Will do.

 

[whateve]

I'll try to figure out the SNAD tonight. It lead me to "try to work things out with the seller first". I probably did the wrong thing.
I didn't know I could adjust the feedback! Thanks for that tip. Will do.

Ask the seller to send you the return label or the money for one. She may not want you to open a SNAD claim against her. As long as she is cooperating, I don't see any reason to.

 

[BeenBurned]

I'll try to figure out the SNAD tonight. It lead me to "try to work things out with the seller first". I probably did the wrong thing.
I didn't know I could adjust the feedback! Thanks for that tip. Will do.

Ask the seller to send you the return label or the money for one. She may not want you to open a SNAD claim against her. As long as she is cooperating, I don't see any reason to.

I agree with trying to work it out first. I thought you'd already filed the dispute, thus my comment about return shipping being paid by the seller.

 

[Sonoma]

Not just the lining, but the style number doesn't match the style, the creed stamp is much too small for the creed patch, the border around the Coach logo on the creed is too wide and the logo itself is in the older retired font, and the inside zipper pull is wrong. Style number 4923 was only used for a Natural Grain drawstring style. I wonder if this was made after hours at the plant or maybe from a stolen or retired creed and serial number stamp.

Below is a close up of the beige creed from the fake, plus thumbnails of stamps from both a genuine Sonoma with the same year and month code, and a genuine creed from a few months later from a Nubuc bag.

ETA - There aren't any other examples of that old-style Coach logo and wide-border cartouche anywhere in my files from that time period. The over-wide border in the questionable bag doesn't seem to be in any other Coaches from the mid-1990s, although it's been found in some fakes. I'll add a close-up of the questionable creed, look at how used and abused it looks - the second C and the H in the Coach logo aren't even aligned correctly at the bottom.

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Thanks Hyacinth for all of this information, will add to my Sonoma data base.
Much appreciated!

 

[Sonoma]

Seller ID is incorrect: riverofgoodsmi

Please wait for Hyacinth or Whateve.

I wonder whether Coach made a mistake on the style number. While the creed is weird (as are many Sonoma creeds) and the lining is different from what most have, the style looks like what 4943 looks like.

The spacing and font in the serial number match another B5E creed:
BAG IN QUESTION:
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COMP:
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Thank you BeenBurned, and sorry about the seller ID.
When I was copying it I was trying so hard to capture that "I' at the end that I didn't notice that I missed the "R" at the beginning!

 

[star07]

Hello! I just want to ask if there is a COACH bag like the photos below? I am trying to buy one. thank you in advance for the reply!

 

[whateve]

Hello! I just want to ask if there is a COACH bag like the photos below? I am trying to buy one. thank you in advance for the reply!

Those are two different styles. Both look like styles Coach has made. It doesn't mean they are authentic.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello! I just want to ask if there is a COACH bag like the photos below? I am trying to buy one. thank you in advance for the reply!

The instructions for asking about authenticity are in Post Number One of this thread. If you don't have photos of the areas listed in the post from the EXACT bag that you're thinking of buying, there's nothing we can say about authenticity and we don't recommend buying them under any circumstances.

We also require the information listed in that post about the seller and where the items are being sold.

 

[Couturexec]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/322697299037
Seller: jlj5366
Vintage Coach Large Brown Leather
J8P-9085 Costa Rica

 

[whateve]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/322697299037
Seller: jlj5366
Vintage Coach Large Brown Leather
J8P-9085 Costa Rica

It's fine.

 

[ArengoKC]

Hi! I found another Station Bag and i hope somebody can confirm its authenticity. The price is too good to pass up but this isn't listed anywhere yet. Hope the pictures would be enough. Thank you!

 

[SaraTHW]

Genuine, made in 1995

Thank you so much Hyacinth!

 

[whateve]

Hi! I found another Station Bag and i hope somebody can confirm its authenticity. The price is too good to pass up but this isn't listed anywhere yet. Hope the pictures would be enough. Thank you!

It looks okay.